Turning Magnetic Scrap Into Valuable Alloy.(process developed at Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Publication: USA Today (Magazine)

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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames (Iowa) Laboratory have refined a process that makes it commercially viable to recover a valuable rare-earth element from tons of stockpiled magnetic scrap. High-energy neodymium-iron-boron magnets are used extensively in automotive, consumer electronics, and biomedical applications with sales exceeding $2,000,000,000 per year. The superior performance of Nd-Fe-B magnets allows manufacturers to make electric motors smaller, more powerful, and more...

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