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Swedish company Northvolt develops new state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery produced with locally sourced materials, entirely independent of traditional battery value chains (feddit.de)

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5922898

Original link: https://northvolt.com/articles/northvolt-sodium-ion

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

...and is produced with minerals such as iron and sodium ...

Iron is a mineral 🤨?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

IIRC even ice is technically a mineral

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which makes water lava, technically speaking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Wow 🤣... you guys are fun 🤣.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, you learn something new every day 👍.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Go look up mineral in a dictionary... it literally means anything solid that's not "organic".

So yeah iron and sodium (salt) are absolutely minerals and so is ice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

So, minerals are then divided in subcategories, like metals, right?