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."
Tetrataenite, an iron-nickel alloy.
Scientific breakthrough with mysterious cosmic metal could solve major crisis on Earth: ‘There’s been an urgent search’
Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://news.yahoo.com/scientific-breakthrough-mysterious-cosmic-metal-190000695.html
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wyrmroot@programming.dev 11 months ago
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.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do you have any hobbies? … Uhh magnetics?
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So the earth has an urgent major crisis because Usa has some dependency on China. O.m.g.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, it also seems much more easily mined so hopefully less environmentally destructive than the crazy stuff we for rare earth mineral mining l.
Lophostemon@aussie.zone 11 months ago
“COULD” “MIGHT” !!!
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Holy sensationalist title batman
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah I pretty much concluded I could skip this one from the title.