could significantly advance clean energy technologies and consumer electronics such as motors, robotics, MRI machines
Wouldn't MRI machines intentionally use electromagnets, so they can be controlled more precisely?
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From that image it appears that this magnet is formed from a crystal of manganese, iron, cobalt, and nickel, which weirdly are all direct neighbors on the periodic table.
What's with that? Is this a crystal thing? Like are similarly sized atoms more stable in a lattice? I'm no chemist, but this strikes me as interesting, or at least weird
This desperately needs a chart representing the relative strength of different magnet materials so that we can see where this is on the spectrum.
so that we can see where this is on the spectrum.
Damn even magnets are autistic now. Wokeness has gone too far!!!!
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Nice to see something else coming to recent news from Washington than dumb-assery and racism.
Well let's see...it's made from minority people's teeth? You must mix it in widow's tears?
There's gotta be some racist shit attached to this. Maybe only small tribes kids can mine it? The processing machines consume 8 pph? Puppies per hour?
It's interesting, but even if it's reaching near rare earth strength, can it be produced at scale? A less powerful magnet is useful if it can be cheaper.
Thats the challenge with novel materials, but it seems like they have gotten somewhat better at bringing them to market lately. For instance, novel battery technology
Wut. Batteries all still suck
I was thinking of, for example, Sodium-ion batteries… sorry if your batteries suck mine are pretty good!
True the battery tech is really coming along, going to be interesting to see what prices are like when I go to replace the 22kwh worth of batteries on my boat next year. The fight between cheaper tech, inflation, and tariffs is going to be a nail biter.
I love when people discover scientific solutions to war, but war always gets the most funding.