Metals that rule the world: 417 kg of rare earth materials are needed to produce a modern F-35 fighter
Business & Economis | | 462 | Author: Olena Zelenina
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What do the latest technologies, the modern defense industry and the green energy transition have in common? The development of all these areas is impossible without rare earth metals, which have become key resources of the 21st century.
Everyone has already heard that Ukraine has significant deposits of such metals, but most of them still remain unexplored or have not been introduced into economic circulation.
So what elements are hidden in our subsoil and what are the prospects for their extraction and processing? And what is needed for them to start working for the economy of our country?
This is what the author and host of the program “About Science. Competently" Volodymyr Semynozhenko on the YouTube channel of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine talks with Olena Remezova, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Head of the Minerals Department of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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