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What's going on around 7:40 when it looks like something is being vaporized onto the new chip?


He's applying flux (appears to be a kind of rosin) by vaporizing it. Oxidation contaminates or prevents solder from joining, soldering flux (often rosin) is an acid that removes oxidation.


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