Need is the mother of invention but investors are the husband

[annvole]

I don't need to be an inventor, I need stuff that nobody is selling. I am not interested in money, I need stuff to build prototype products or services. I don't need to make lots of these things, I want to be a customer for these non-existent businesses. Elon says his product isn't cars, his product is the factory that makes cars because the actual

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[madman101]

what is, "element purification"?

[annvole]

Elements like iron and silicon and carbon. Chemical bonds make new properties compared to the pure elements and the arrangement of atoms, even of purely one element, can also make new properties (such as pure carbon forming both diamonds and graphite). Many different elements have similar properties due to the outer electrons having similar arrangement even though the numbers of electrons and protons are different. This makes "rare earth elements" seem rare when they are actually basically everywhere on Earth but blended together and cannot be easily concentrated. Many elements have lots of possible isotopes... Same number of protons but different number of neutrons. Elements like lead are made of both stable and radioactive isotopes of lead when freshly extracted but over the years, more of the radioactive isotopes break down releasing radioactive decay radiation. Many science experiments trying to eliminate radiation need ancient lead that humans have concentrated hundreds of years ago because it is almost all a stable isotope of