DOE researchers develop energy-efficient, cost-effective process to extract rare earth elements from scrapped magnets

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By mmillikinAug 18, 2019, 5:00 am1k ptsInterestingTop
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and colleagues have developed a process to extract rare earth elements from the scrapped magnets of used hard drives and other sources. They have patented and scaled-up the process in lab demonstrations and are working with ORNL’s licensee Momentum…

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