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Phytomining

In contrast, plants on a small nickel farm could be harvested every six months on land where the nickel concentration is only 0.1 percent. After two decades, the roots would struggle to find enough nickel, but the land would have been sucked dry of its toxic metals, and fertile enough to support more common crops.

Source: Harvesting metal from plants that suck it out of the ground | Boing Boing

Author samalcoffPosted on March 9, 2021

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