Big Oil seizes lithium opportunities
Mining companies could benefit in cash and technology as major fossil fuel companies invest in lithium.
Professor Martyn Poliakoff, host of the excellent Periodic Videos channel on YouTube, obtained a bottle of Tsar’s Vodka during a trip to Russia and was inspired to pour aqua regia into the same bottle and show gold going into solution.
Aqua regia (in Latin, king’s water) is a highly corrosive solution used for refining high purity gold.
“The key technical question is how do you hang a piece of gold into a bottle without whatever it is suspended upon dissolving into the aqua regia,” asks Poliakoff.
