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."
Scientific breakthrough with mysterious cosmic metal could solve major crisis on Earth: ‘There’s been an urgent search’
https://news.yahoo.com/scientific-breakthrough-mysterious-cosmic-metal-190000695.html
9 Comments
MataVatnik@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 2y
Holy sensationalist title batman
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 2y
Yeah I pretty much concluded I could skip this one from the title.
didiercool@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 2y
Tetrataenite, an iron-nickel alloy.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
My man!
wyrmroot@programming.dev · 41 pts · 2y
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 · 5 pts · 2y
Do you have any hobbies? .... Uhh magnetics?
Lophostemon@aussie.zone · 15 pts · 2y
“COULD” “MIGHT” !!!!
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
So the earth has an urgent major crisis because Usa has some dependency on China. O.m.g.
Lauchs@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
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.