indium
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- n a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite
- HelioVolt didn't invent copper indium gallium selenide, a thin film used to generate electricity from sunlight, but it did develop a faster, more cost-effective way to manufacture .
- The raw materials the workers carry are ultra-thin sheets of flexible plastic, which are then coated with a series of chemicals--indium, gallium, diselenide--that allows the module .
- Details of the latest developments are under lock key, but World War II has been the making of indium: Indium is a once-rare metal that even in very small quantities makes soft .