液晶でも水銀を追放・LEDの登場
What will the switch mean? For Apple, it will remove mercury from the company’s displays. According to Jobs, mercury and arsenic are industry-standard materials used in LCDs; the former is used in the fluorescent lamps to brighten LCDs, while the latter is added to prevent defects in the glass used in such monitors. Those chemicals pose a threat to the environment, particularly as users dispose of products containing them.
http://www.macworld.com/article/57740/2007/05/ledbacklight.html
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What will the switch mean? For Apple, it will remove mercury from the company’s displays. According to Jobs, mercury and arsenic are industry-standard materials used in LCDs; the former is used in the fluorescent lamps to brighten LCDs, while the latter is added to prevent defects in the glass used in such monitors. Those chemicals pose a threat to the environment, particularly as users dispose of products containing them.
http://www.macworld.com/article/57740/2007/05/ledbacklight.html
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