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Researchers develop a new process to get lithium out of rocks

The key chemical in the process is ammonium fluoride (NH4F). It’s possible to use the salt directly in a molten […]

Those steps (along with follow-up reactions to restore the acid or other chemicals to a usable state) obviously add up […]

Skip to content While this material degrades over time, it could point to better ones. A multi-walled carbon nanotube. In […]

Mixing corn starch and water in appropriate amounts produces a slurry that is liquid when stirred slowly but hardens when […]

In 1953, Russian scientists peeling Scotch tape in a vacuum reported detecting electrons with sufficient energy to emit X-rays. Other […]

Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium. Right now, Silica hardware isn’t quite ready for commercialization. Credit: Microsoft […]

Sunlight can cause a molecule to change structure, and then release heat later. The system works a bit like existing […]

An elephant’s trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also […]

Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. […]

When the battery starts discharging, the sulfur at the cathode starts losing electrons and forming sulfur tetrachloride (SCl4), using chloride […]