Rare earth elements await in waste: Flash Joule heating extracts valuable elements from fly ash, bauxite residue, electronic waste
- Posted February 11, 2022
- 1:21 am

Rare earth elements are hard to get and hard to recycle, but a flash of intuition led Rice University scientists toward a possible solution. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour reports it has successfully extracted valuable rare earth elements (REE) from waste at yields high enough to resolve issues for manufacturers while boosting their…
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