Harvard team develops cleaner method to separate rare-earth metals using bacteria

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By mmillikinJun 20, 2016, 11:38 am86 pts
Current process for separating rare-earth metals is time consuming, expensive, and dangerous. Processing one ton of rare earths can produce 2,000 tons of toxic waste. Now, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a cleaner method to extract…

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