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Trapping seawater contaminants in calcareous deposits

Brian Owens · January 25, 2017 ·

Electrochemical technique can trap up to 24% of nickel in metal-rich seawater, in just seven days.

The same process that causes crusty limescale to build up on the inside of your kettle could help to clean up nickel pollution in seawater, according to new research from the South Pacific island of New Caledonia. Read more in Chemistry World.

Chemistry World electrochemistry, mining, New Caledonia, nickel, pollution

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