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11 Jun
14:24

Saudi Arabia's Kaust researchers extract lithium from seawater

Researchers from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust) have extracted lithium from seawater from the Red Sea. “The oceans contain about 5,000 times more lithium than the land but at extremely low concentrations of about 0.2 parts-per-million (ppm). Larger ions, including sodium, magnesium and potassium, are all present in seawater at much higher concentrations; however, previous research efforts to tease lithium from…
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