The new Kennecott Utah Copper smelter, started in 1995, was designed to be the cleanest smelter environmentally in the world. The plant is operating at production rates above the original design capacity. Copper concentrate is smelted in an Outokumpu flash smelting furnace. Matte is granulated and processed using Kennecott-Outokumpu flash converting. Copper anodes are processed in a modernized ...

We construct electronic oscillator from acellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum. The slime mould oscillator is made of two electrodes connected by a protoplasmic tube of the living slime mould. A protoplasmic tube has an average resistance of 3 MOhm. The tube’s resistance is changing over time due to peristaltic contractile activity of the tube. The resistance of the protoplasmic tube oscil...

Lithiophilic hosts are confirmed to effectively enhance the electrochemical stability of lithium (Li) anodes, thereby guaranteeing safe, practical application Li metal as anode in rechargeable Li-ion batteries. This study reveals a lithiophilic three-dimensional copper current collector (Ag@CF). Silver (Ag) nanoparticles were anchored on surface skeleton foam (CF) via facile displacement reacti...

Low grade sulfide ores are difficult to process due their composite mineralogy and fine grained dissemination with gangue minerals. Therefore, grinding of such becomes essential liberate valuable In this research, selective flotation was carried out using two pitched blade turbine impellers diameters 6 cm 7 float copper nickel. The main focus research generate optimum hydrodynamic conditions th...

Cell fusion is a fundamental phenomenon observed in all eukaryotes. Cells can exchange resources such as molecules or organelles during fusion. In this paper, we ask whether a cell can also transfer an adaptive response to a fusion partner. We addressed this question in the unicellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum, in which cell-cell fusion is extremely common. Slime moulds are capable of ...

Slime, the extracellular matrix of Physarum plasmodium, is secreted by the exocytosis of a vesicles that contain a slime precursor. Using an antibody raised against biochemically purified slime, we detected the intracellular localization of the slime vesicle. Slime vesicles are abundant in the advancing front of the plasmodium, as confirmed by electron microscopic observation in two different c...