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More like a lithium extraction patent. Table salt is involved in the extraction process. This has nothing to do with what the title made me envision: Tesla is d
by DoreenMichele 5y ago
More like a lithium extraction patent. Table salt is involved in the extraction process. This has nothing to do with what the title made me envision: Tesla is diversifying into the food business or something?
- sharken 5y agoYes, the title reads more like click bait, perhaps because the title "SELECTIVE EXTRACTION OF LITHIUM FROM CLAY MINERALS" from the patent application would not generate enough clicks. Apart from the semi-novel concept here, the word "about" is used frequently in the patent. It seems very hard to make something useful with the patent, with the uncertainty this introduces. Is that standard procedure ?
- tempodox 5y agoYep, my first thought was, I'll have to pay license fees now for putting salt on my meal.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoBut only for table salt. This could be a huge boon for kosher salt and sea salt.
- rob74 5y agoTable salt, kosher salt, sea salt... it's all NaCl to me!
- DoreenMichele 5y agoSomeone needs to read labels and find out what they are actually putting in their mouths. ;) (Kosher salt is probably the only one on that list that is just NaCl. Table salt has an anticaking ingredient added, thus the catch phrase "when it rains, it pours" (because untreated salt clumps), and usually also has iodine added. Sea salt typically has a mix of other minerals found naturally in sea water and may be as little as 86 percent NaCl. There is also canning and pickling salt which is also possibly just NaCl. Pink Himalayan mountain salt contains iron, iirc, thus the pink coloring.) Edited to add winky and parantheses to try to signal "That first line was intended as lighthearded humor". I mostly suck at being funny. Droning on about things I know too much about is more my speed.