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There's some irony in the fact that devices that seem indispensable to modern life-;mobile phones, personal computers, and anything battery-powered-;depend entirely on minerals extracted from mining, one of the most ancient of human industries.
A nontoxic separation process recovers critical minerals from electronic scrap waste.
A nontoxic separation process recovers critical minerals from electronic scrap waste.
Since ancient times, humans have extracted salts, like table salt, from the ocean. While table salt is the easiest to obtain, seawater is a rich source of different minerals, and researchers are e ...
Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the University of Washington (UW) have developed a simple way to isolate a pure magnesium salt, a feedstock for magnesium metal, from seawater. The new method flows two solutions side-by-side in a long stream. Called the laminar coflow method (LCM), the process...