Every few hours, two furnaces in a New Hampshire office park quietly transform batches of taupe-colored powder into rough ingots. These mottled chunks of metal, about the size of a few bricks, ultimately will be used to make electric vehicle motors or maybe a fighter jet.
This is what rare-earth processing looks like in the United States, where university researchers and startups are trying to wrest a slice of this small but vital industry from ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#SME#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/china” target=”_blank”>China.
Rare earths are a family of elements toward the bottom of the periodic table, with tongue-twister…
