A surface-mount tantalum capacitor. By Epop [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Tantalum electrolytic capacitors were first manufactured for military purposed in the 1930s. These used wound ...

There are a set of tantalum capacitors which have failed, and the replacements she’s using turn out to have problems too. They’re a period part for a project of this age, but we might have ...

A capacitor made out of the precious metal tantalum. The silver-gray tantalum beads, in the form of compacted powder, can store a lot of charge relative to their mass. This enables smaller ...