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Abstract
The isolation of critical materials from minerals is challenging due to their comparable chemical properties and tendency to co-exist with one another. Instead of driving lanthanide separation by chemical extraction, a study leverages solubility differences between adjacent lanthanides to isolate Nd from used NdFeB magnets.
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