China has launched a 500-tonne production line to extract rubidium and caesium from lithium waste.
A demonstration line in Jiangxi province – the world’s first with an annual capacity of 500 tonnes for continuous tower extraction and separation of low-grade rubidium and caesium – has achieved stable production, according to the Institute of Process Engineering under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Rubidium and caesium are critical to aerospace, quantum computing, biomedicine, new energy and other frontier fields.
TwoFlower68 | a day ago
Ah, it's an industrial plant, not a biological one
MoonDaddy | 12 hours ago
Ah fugg, I came to the comments looking for phytoremediation, goddamnit!
SirForsaken6120 | 19 hours ago
Phytomining
[OP] scmp_news | a day ago
China has launched a 500-tonne production line to extract rubidium and caesium from lithium waste.
A demonstration line in Jiangxi province – the world’s first with an annual capacity of 500 tonnes for continuous tower extraction and separation of low-grade rubidium and caesium – has achieved stable production, according to the Institute of Process Engineering under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Rubidium and caesium are critical to aerospace, quantum computing, biomedicine, new energy and other frontier fields.
Read more: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3367490/chinese-plant-extracts-critical-rare-metals-lithium-waste-world-first?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Social
costafilh0 | 10 hours ago
Ukraine: Am I a joke to you?
Russia: Ok, I'm out.