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Re: SCIENTISTS MAKE BREAKTHROUGH DISCOVERY WHILE EXPERIMENTING WITH URINE: =?ISO-8859-1?B? VdF?= CAN REUSE A VERY SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE COBALT’

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Ubiquitous wrote:
> Scientists have experimented with many types of materials in hopes of making
> EV batteries, their storage, and their recycling more efficient. One of the
> latest breakthroughs, developed by a team from Linnaeus University in Sweden
> and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India, is derived from
> perhaps the most unexpected substance yet: urine.
> 
> The new method, which the scientists described in a study published in the
> scientific journal ACS Omega, summarized by Anthropocene, can be used during
> the battery recycling process to extract valuable metals used in lithium-ion
> batteries. It uses a liquid solvent derived from urine and acetic acid, the
> main ingredient in vinegar.
> 
> The scientists say that it is able to recover a whopping 97% of cobalt from a
> battery, all while relying on harmless chemicals and much less energy than
> current processes.

Strange, I only found iron in mine.  Who published this paper?

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SCIENTISTS MAKE BREAKTHROUGH DISCOVERY WHILE EXPERIMENTING WITH URINE: =?ISO-8859-1?B? VdF?= CAN REUSE A VERY SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE COBALT’ Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> - 2024-02-21 09:34 -0500
  Re: SCIENTISTS MAKE BREAKTHROUGH DISCOVERY WHILE EXPERIMENTING WITH URINE: =?ISO-8859-1?B? VdF?= CAN REUSE A VERY SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE COBALT’ Altered Beast <j63480576@gmail.com> - 2024-08-21 22:27 -0500

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