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Maybe a better approach would be to purify it by chemically dissolving the old glass in eg sodium hydroxide and reprecipitating it out. I'm sure people have tr
by katzinsky 2y ago
Maybe a better approach would be to purify it by chemically dissolving the old glass in eg sodium hydroxide and reprecipitating it out.
I'm sure people have tried that though and it doesn't work for some reason.
- fencepost 2y agoThere are a bunch of cleaning and separating steps that happen for removal of organics, metals, plastics, different colors of glass, etc. Pretty sure the chemical reaction to actually dissolve glass is not particularly fast and I have no idea what you'd do to later precipitate it out, but it may not be an economically viable approach.