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Study suggests lithium and cobalt for batteries may face supply risks by 2050

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The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … Passerini (2018) “A cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries“ Nat. —Vaalma et al. Resources. Buchholz, M. Weil and S. 3, 18013 doi: 10.1038/natrevmats.2018.13. Ziemann, J.

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200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor

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Faraday was an interesting choice for this task, as Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon recount in their 2014 book. He read many of the books he bound and continued to look for opportunities to learn more. He had discovered sodium, potassium, and several compounds and invented the. Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field.

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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The course was the basis for his 1962 book Introduction to Radar Systems. He and his staff developed concepts for wideband shipboard air-surveillance radar with reduced susceptibility to electronic countermeasures; self-defense radar; and space-borne radar for detecting ships. Naval Research Laboratory.

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Did J.J. Thomson Discover the Electron?

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Rather, he ended by simply noting that the ratio is of the same order as the value that Dutch physicist Pieter Zeeman deduced the previous year, in his experiments on the magnetic field of sodium light. In her book. Today we understand the “Zeeman effect” to be the result of electron spin, but the electron had not yet been discovered.