Scientific breakthrough with mysterious cosmic metal could solve major crisis on Earth: ‘There’s been an urgent search’ (news.yahoo.com)

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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."

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[-] wyrmroot@programming.dev 40 points 9 months ago

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 points 9 months ago

Do you have any hobbies? .... Uhh magnetics?

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