ACRYLIC vs WOOL Acrylics and plastics are natural conductors of electricity.
In fact - acrylics is used to boost conductivity in low grade graphite.
If acrylic can absorb uranyls from sea water then...
What would wool do in phosphate Salars ?
How does electrical conductivity work with - wool ?
Friction and dry atomosphere.
Are the two requirements for wool to conduct electricity.
Let's probe a lil deeper...
is wool discharging electrons or more like absorbing and retaining ?
All metals inherantly have electrons.
Depending on the metal and valence structure determines the free electrons it can give.
Like a magnet that distrupts the electrons from copper wire, one has to ask...
how does the copper wound wire keep on giving up electrons ?
You won't find this openly talked about online...
The most probable answer - copper reabsorbs more electrons from - air.
Replenishes it's valence electrons only to offer them up again with another rotation
passing the magnet. Proof of this is seen in the oxidation of copper wire or bushings.
Cleaning the oxidation restores the copper to enable it to keep offering electrons.
So let's apply this to....wool and phosphate salar.
wool would have to be nonstatic.
and if the laws of static is applied = wool would attract high charged ions / electrons.
Uranium is highly charged ( radiated )
Thus... wool would attract the high radiated ions and inturn cleave to the wool fibers.
Once wool is loaded with radiated uranium ions
Soak in sodium bicarbonate or orher acid to cause redox release
Filter Dry
Complete
Those nearby Salars have all the rainbow colors of other open pit phosphate mines.
Would be smart if... BSK secured a few brine rights.
They'd have a double feature with uranium - surface shallow pits and brine.
Go big or go home.
Easy way to scale / expand their uranium exposure.
Some may say...
too costly and not enough tonnage could be extracted
my reply ?
small scale - easy start up
and what is extracted would be pure yellow cake end product
= commands far more money than a concentrate
Cheers...