Multiple Choice
Experts are particularly concerned about the U.S.depletion and lack of national reserves of manganese,cobalt,chromium,and platinum because they are nonrenewable ____ resources.
A) security metal
B) strategic metal
C) biogenic metal
D) rare metal
E) trace metal
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