China has near global monopolies on these exports, accounting for 98% of global gallium production, 93% of germanium production, and 49% of antimony production.

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  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    for example this anthrax place originally meant Coal Colony).

    this immediately made me think about anthracite

    Anthracite, also known as hard coal and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic lustre.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Yes, anthrax and anthracite comes from the same Greek word meaning black coal. In Polish this ethymology is mimicked - coal is węgiel in Polish, with diminutive singular węgielek, but it used to be wąglik. That last form fell out of use in time and was used again for the anthrax.