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Rice University: Rare Earth Elements Await in Waste
February 10, 2022
HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 10 (TNSJou) -- Rice University issued the following news release:

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Rice lab's flash Joule heating extracts valuable elements from fly ash, bauxite residue, electronic waste

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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 ra . . .

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