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A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

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Re: A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

defrost wrote: post #10
dylan604 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's one of those corporate videos that's totally useless. Lot's of "pretty" pictures with drone footage, but there's no there there. Who do videos like this work on?

Gloss for potential investors / capital raisers wanting a bit more than the dry quarterlies and annual reports as they prep for raising 50 or a 100 million in more forward capital loans for processing expansion. It's literal lube for the grinding wheels of commerce. Some can get by on the technical reports and capex and projected returns, others want a bit of "a vision" / proof of big shed and machinery.

Just one nitpick.

Literal lube is lube. This is not lube. This is a video.

Re: A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

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Post by defrost »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #11
defrost wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gloss for potential investors / capital raisers wanting a bit more than the dry quarterlies and annual reports as they prep for raising 50 or a 100 million in more forward capital loans for processing expansion. It's literal lube for the grinding wheels of commerce. Some can get by on the technical reports and capex and projected returns, others want a bit of "a vision" / proof of big shed and machinery.

Just one nitpick. Literal lube is lube. This is not lube. This is a video.

Literally a video for lubricating acceptance of a project. Literally.

Re: A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

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Post by BigTTYGothGF »

defrost wrote: post #12
cadamsdotcom wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just one nitpick. Literal lube is lube. This is not lube. This is a video.

Literally a video for lubricating acceptance of a project. Literally.

Literal video, metaphorical lube.

Re: A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

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Post by kirubakaran »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #11
defrost wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gloss for potential investors / capital raisers wanting a bit more than the dry quarterlies and annual reports as they prep for raising 50 or a 100 million in more forward capital loans for processing expansion. It's literal lube for the grinding wheels of commerce. Some can get by on the technical reports and capex and projected returns, others want a bit of "a vision" / proof of big shed and machinery.

Just one nitpick. Literal lube is lube. This is not lube. This is a video.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/misuse-of-literally

Re: A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

BigTTYGothGF wrote: post #13
defrost wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literally a video for lubricating acceptance of a project. Literally.

Literal video, metaphorical lube.

> The new approach relies on a layered form of manganese oxide—a mineral material with the right size layers to allow ions to slip in and out and to differentiate rare earth elements.

Seems literal to me!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentonite#Drilling_mud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc#Uses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite#Other_properties

Re: A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

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Post by defrost »

BigTTYGothGF wrote: post #13
defrost wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literally a video for lubricating acceptance of a project. Literally.

Literal video, metaphorical lube.

By Oxford English Dictionary literal definition, not all lubricants are fluids.

  Etiquette is a mere lubricant of the order of society.
OED entry "lubricant" (B.noun)

  Fine music‥has a sensible effect in‥animating and as it were, lubricating my inventive faculty.
OED entry "lubricate" (2.a verb)

Lube also used for cash - greasing palms, etc.

Re: A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

defrost wrote: post #12
cadamsdotcom wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just one nitpick. Literal lube is lube. This is not lube. This is a video.

Literally a video for lubricating acceptance of a project. Literally.

If by "literally" in the original post you mean the modern "pay attention to these words in particular".. why leave that in?

We are literally already paying attention. It's literally redundant.

Re: A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

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Post by cwillu »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #17
defrost wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literally a video for lubricating acceptance of a project. Literally.

If by "literally" in the original post you mean the modern "pay attention to these words in particular".. why leave that in? We are literally already paying attention. It's literally redundant.

And yet you missed the the double the.

Re: A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #15
BigTTYGothGF wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literal video, metaphorical lube.

> The new approach relies on a layered form of manganese oxide—a mineral material with the right size layers to allow ions to slip in and out and to differentiate rare earth elements. Seems literal to me! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentonite#Drilling_mud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc#Uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite#Other_properties

It's a video about literal lube!

But a video isn't literally lube :) it's a video.

Re: A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

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Post by merek »

Animats wrote: post #2

Nice. Here's MP Minerals' plant for doing that, in Alliance, TX.[1] It's a modest sized plant in an industrial park. It's fed by a huge mine in California, which has an onsite beneficiation plant. Beneficiation is the first step of separation - sorting the good stuff out from the unwanted dirt, with rock crushers, screens, and flotation. This being "rare" earth mining, the amount of good stuff is tiny relative to the…

What's the general process for the initial separation of unwanted dirt? I've worked in a zinc smelter a long time ago, the initial stage was roasting, heating the ore to 900C to burn off unwanted components (such as sulfur, which went on to become sulfuric acid), and to melt other components.

I guess I'm surprised at the absence of flue stacks and cooling towers at the facility shown in the video.

Perhaps the facility in the video only shows "cleaner" downstream processing for marketing appeal, or separation processes are fundamentally different?

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