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At sufficiently high temperatures you overcome all molecular binding energies. The result would be free atoms. Spinning the resulting plasma would separate the
by daly 5y ago
At sufficiently high temperatures you overcome all molecular binding energies. The result would be free atoms. Spinning the resulting plasma would separate the atoms by atomic mass.
This is basically a high-temp version of a cracking tower used in the oil industry. The difference is that the temperature is high enough to "crack" anything.