A Substance That Never Been Before in the World Has Been Produced!

The madness that is the subject of this news, someone in the USA Boston Universityin , the other in the UK Cambridge UniversityIt was carried out by two different teams working in .

There is an ocean between them, and yet they have artificially produced a substance that has never existed naturally on Earth before.

Nickel and iron… These two substances are both materials formed by the natural conditions of the Earth and have become two of the most important industrial materials of humanity over the centuries:

We even spend a lot of money to get them out of the ground and cause damage to the earth, nature and atmosphere. The cost of these damages is very heavy.

However, there is an important alloy consisting of a combination of nickel and iron: Tetrataenite.

Because meteorites are celestial bodies too small to have their own atmospheres and in space. thousands of kilometers They get hotter as they go. They are exposed to these high temperatures and cooling during their millions of years of journey.

Tetrataenite, which does not form on Earth, is only found in meteorites in outer space… So what are we doing on Earth with this material found only in meteorites?

This special alloy of nickel and iron; needed for important technologies such as electric vehicles, turbines of space shuttles. in the production of “advanced magnets” is being used. These magnets are not simple magnets like the ornaments we hang on our closet or the case covers. They are mostly used in areas with strong pushing and pulling power and requiring high strength, such as high-speed trains.

In fact, it is known that “space mining” studies have been carried out just to obtain substances such as tetrataenite:

These studies are not so thoughtful. Projects are being implemented that will capture meteorites and bring them to Earth and make their valuable elements ready for use. for example NASA’s OSIRIS-REx instrumentBy understanding the structure of esteroids, an answer was sought to the issue of how to mine in space conditions.

Here, this material called tetrataenite, which must ‘fuse iron and nickel on meteorites drifting for millions of years’ for its formation, was produced in a laboratory environment on earth:

According to scientists, if this artificial material, called tetrataenite, works in the industrial field, it could change many things we know. At least there is no need for extensive damage to nature and production costs it can be cheaper.

China’s dominance of “rare earths” may come to an end!

It is one of the main natural resources of materials such as glass, ceramics, laser, magnet, petroleum catalyst used in the production of advanced technology devices. “rare earth elements” controlled by China. Since the scientific research in question was carried out under the control of western countries, a useful result has the power to end China’s natural resource superiority and change the balance. However, the scientists who conducted the study think that this will not happen in such a short time and it will take time.

• Rare earth element: atomic number With elements of the lanthanide group 57 to 71 together yttrium and scandium A special group of elements.

What is the difference between the magnets in our cabinets and the magnets produced with the said tetrataenite material?

If you remove the magnet on the ornament in your cabinet and expose it to high temperature, it will lose all its properties. But magnets on a space shuttle must be more durable as the vehicle can be exposed to high temperatures in space. Think of a high-speed train… Thanks to magnetism, it is impossible to produce these gigantic masses, which slow down and accelerate without ever touching the rails, with non-durable magnets. a magnet to make it durable only rare earth elements are needed.

In fact, rare earth elements are ubiquitous, but the main issue is to extract them and process them into an industrial raw material. Extremely In this expensive and tedious process, First you have to dig up the soil and purify it by creating chemical reactions that require high attention to separate them from the other elements they combine with.

rare earth elements today fiber optic cables, radiation scanners, televisions, electric cars, batteries and many personal electronic devices is being used. The rare earths competition between East and West, the USA and China has been going on since the 1980s and is seen as one of the biggest causes of tension between the two nations.