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Nickel shortage
MT:
SiliconWizard:
This is getting endless. ::)
TimFox:
Perhaps there is still a reason for the German term "Kupfernickel", literally "Devil's copper".
jpanhalt:
Both nickel and copper come from the time of Earth's creation, dust from exploded stars (https://blog.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/periodic_table.png ). Neither are renewable. Dig baby dig.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: jpanhalt on April 03, 2022, 08:33:56 pm ---Both nickel and copper come from the time of Earth's creation, dust from exploded stars (https://blog.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/periodic_table.png ). Neither are renewable. Dig baby dig.
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Most of what there is on Earth is just that.
Renewable is a convenient, yet misleading term. Everything ends up getting recycled. What we call "renewable" is what recycles faster.
Atomic elements, unless they somehow decay, are always recycled as is.
For compound matter, that depends. It may take millions of years to form again as it was, or may never.
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