A New Ultra-Adsorbent Material Can Suck Up 20 Times More Uranium Than Rival Methods

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A New Ultra-Adsorbent Material Can Suck Up 20 Times More Uranium Than Rival Methods
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And seawater holds billions of tons.

that mimics the way that blood vessels operate and added a material that was impregnated with a compound called amidoxime which binds to uranium ions. In this fashion, they managed to create To detect whether uranium was truly captured, the team used X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. They further discovered that the uranium-laced material could also be cleaned with hydrochloric acid, removing 98 percent of the uranium.

The scientists said that they were inspired by the geometry of blood vessels.

For those worrying that the uranium would not be replenished in the oceans at a reasonable rate, it should be noted that the reservoir of the substance is so vast in seawater that it does not really matter whether the uranium is replenished or not. To get a feel about the state of uranium extraction from seawater in 2018,

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