It takes around 10 minutes to run a gas-mass analysis on a scrape of the PCB. 20-30 at most.
Gas chromatography coupled to a mass spectrometer equipment is available in most commercial environmental control labs and is standard equipment in most university chemistry departments. They even have it at airports nowdays (just do not mention the name in front of the security droids because they consider it magic and anyone who recognises the superduper equipment is an immediate suspect). It is not like we are talking something that is rocket science.
So the question "what did apple use for a fire retardant" could have been answered in half an hour as long as someone was happy to violate the sanctity of the "Jesus Phone" with a sampling hammer.
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It takes around 10 minutes to run a gas-mass analysis on a scrape of the PCB. 20-30 at most.
Gas chromatography coupled to a mass spectrometer equipment is available in most commercial environmental control labs and is standard equipment in most university chemistry departments. They even have it at airports nowdays (just do not mention the name in front of the security droids because they consider it magic and anyone who recognises the superduper equipment is an immediate suspect). It is not like we are talking something that is rocket science.
So the question "what did apple use for a fire retardant" could have been answered in half an hour as long as someone was happy to violate the sanctity of the "Jesus Phone" with a sampling hammer.