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"If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you’ll see pure
sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the liquid. You can even watch the
beautiful sugar crystals slowly grow in the water.
You can do the same thing with metals, though probably not in your kitchen.
At high temperatures, one molten metal can dissolve another. As the mixture
cools, the dissolved metal begins to crystallise inside the melt, just like
sugar forming crystals from water.
In new research published in
Nature Communications, we have observed this
process in more detail than ever before – and used the information we gained to
produce crystals that are perfect for harvesting hydrogen from water, in the
first of countless possible applications."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
