Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa, OK, USA,

[1] Nov/Dec 2006

Central Lab chemist Tom Munie discovered that the solder on the motherboards and other circuitry within these computers had been attacked by sulfur, ….

“We were seeing a lot of new computers in one particular area of the design center that were malfunctioning – sometimes within the first 30 days,” says Ford commodity analyst Cyndi Morrell.

In fact, these computers weren’t just experiencing software problems, their motherboards were corroding. Morrell turned to Ford’s Central Lab to find out why.

Central Lab chemist Tom Munie discovered that the solder on the motherboards and other circuitry within these computers had been attacked by sulfur, causing severe, premature corrosion. After some investigation, Munie pinpointed that the modeling clay, used in abundance near where these computers were stationed in the design center, contained high levels of sulfur…. ([2] Full Story)
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Note by folc.ca: During a 2006 tour of the Shantz sulphur processing plant, Shantz personnel pointed out that they experienced a high rate of failures of circuit boards in computers and cell phones at the Shantz sulphur facility. –WHS