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Global Initiative Mines Retired Hard Disk Drives for Materials and Magnets
- HillaryBriss 8y ago> In Tennessee, the leftover waste slag from metal recovery facilities, which contains rare earth elements including gold, platinum, and “all that good stuff,” is used as filler material for paving roads... in some other places they use broken toilets instead
- ggm 8y agoDemagnetised by heat.. but can be demagnetised?
- rzzzt 8y agoHeat the thing above its Curie temperature, and it loses its magical powers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_magnet#Magnetic_properties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_magnet#Magnetic_pro...