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by TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 1294 days ago
Remove about 82% of lead from bronze using this one weird trick!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250155103_Removal_o...

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Neat, this dovetails with another interest of mine, pottery. NaF is "sodium feldspar" and Ca-Si compounds are "wollastonite" among others. Both useful as fluxes in metal casting, in addition to their pottery uses.
I was hoping for something involving a particle accelerator and making gold.