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Fortunately, X-ray vision does reveal the secrets of board-level components:
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Inductors reveal their wire coils.
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Capacitors remain dark and elusive with all their wrapped dielectric layers.
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Resistors are almost invisible, except for the solder that melts and creates a fillet on the edges of the resistor.
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Invisible crystals are hidden beneath protective walls, but close to the processor to minimize latency and signal interference.
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The swirls are the wire coils of the inductive charger. The large, dark blobs are solder mounts for a chip, and the wavy background pattern is the flash memory chip. More on that later...
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