Scientific breakthrough with mysterious cosmic metal could solve major crisis on Earth: ‘There’s been an urgent search’
Scientific breakthrough with mysterious cosmic metal could solve major crisis on Earth: ‘There’s been an urgent search’::“This result represents a total change in how we think about this material."
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Holy sensationalist title batman
Yeah I pretty much concluded I could skip this one from the title.
Tetrataenite, an iron-nickel alloy.
My man!
TL;DR: Magnets. China makes almost all of them so any time we see something that might replace rare earth metals we get excited. In this case because a group made improvements to our ability to synthesize tetrataenite, an iron-nickel alloy, by adding phosphorus.
Do you have any hobbies? .... Uhh magnetics?
“COULD” “MIGHT” !!!!
So the earth has an urgent major crisis because Usa has some dependency on China. O.m.g.
I mean, it also seems much more easily mined so hopefully less environmentally destructive than the crazy stuff we for rare earth mineral mining.
Edit: also, supply matters. If we can make much more of the necessary materials, price comes down, adoption increases etc.