No, this is not a call for you all to go and dump £10 in. Tjhat’s not, not ereally, ht point.
Sure, sure, it would be lovely if someone did put up the £1 million. But even that’s not wholly the point. There’re vast sums being thrown around in panic right now and npo bugger is listening to me. Bastards, eh? And this is one – very cheap in the scheme of things – of the things that really should be done.
No one is paying attention to the possibility of leapfrogging the Chinese state of tech. But that’s exactly what we should be paying attention to.
So, the GoFundMe is here.
I’m Tim Worstall here to work on beating China at the rare earths game. Not to beat them entirely, not on £1 million, but to take a big bite out of one specific problem. Or at least attempt to.
What we need to do is test “vacuum distillation of lanthanide halides” which is something that will make sense to about three people.
That’s something that really should be done. Whether it’s me that does it I don’t particularly worry about.
So, you know, spread the wpord….
Done!
Also done!
Titanium tetrachloride is a liquid at room temperature, with a boiling point of 136 deg C.
Scandium Chloride and the Lanthanide Chlorides all appear to be solids at room temperature, with rather high melting points and even higher boiling points. I fear that even vacuum distillation is unlikely to be viable.
Have you considered any form of chromatography as an alternative?
This has been checked…..still good to go.
Meanwhile, the CCP has noted your project and…?
It’s gone tits up.