{"id":205310,"date":"2024-02-09T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T15:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/old-milk-can-be-used-to-extract-gold-and-other-metals-from-e-waste\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:57","slug":"old-milk-can-be-used-to-extract-gold-and-other-metals-from-e-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/old-milk-can-be-used-to-extract-gold-and-other-metals-from-e-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Old milk can be used to extract gold and other metals from e-waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07180717\/SEI_188863733.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07180717\/SEI_188863733.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07180717\/SEI_188863733.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07180717\/SEI_188863733.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07180717\/SEI_188863733.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07180717\/SEI_188863733.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07180717\/SEI_188863733.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07180717\/SEI_188863733.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07180717\/SEI_188863733.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07180717\/SEI_188863733.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07180717\/SEI_188863733.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2416309 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"901\" data-credit=\"Raffaele Mezzenga\" data-caption=\"A gold nugget obtained from electronic waste\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">A gold nugget obtained from electronic waste<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Raffaele Mezzenga<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>An aerogel made from old milk can extract highly pure gold nuggets from discarded computer motherboards.<\/p>\n<p>Discarded electronics, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2277074-the-eu-may-make-recycling-e-waste-a-legal-requirement-will-it-work\/\">e-waste<\/a>, often contain large amounts of gold and other heavy metals. Scientists have come up with methods to recover the valuable metals, but these processes often rely on synthetic chemicals that can damage the environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fsm.ethz.ch\/about-us\/people\/group-head.html\">Raffaele Mezzenga<\/a> at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and his colleagues have developed a way to recover gold from e-waste by using a milk-derived <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22429900-900-wonder-stuff-frozen-smoke-to-clean-the-world\/\">aerogel<\/a>, a type of gel\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2416306-old-milk-can-be-used-to-extract-gold-and-other-metals-from-e-waste\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A gold nugget obtained from electronic waste Raffaele Mezzenga An aerogel made from old milk can extract highly pure gold nuggets from discarded computer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344570,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205310\/revisions\/344570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}