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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by The_Beta on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:46PM (#28926195)
So why does a battery wear out after an extended number of uses?
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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by sonium on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:08AM (#28927314)
It’s the “arrangement” of elements in the simplest terms, like changes in crystal structure.
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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by The_Beta on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:26PM (#28936010)
So how does recycling revert this back to the original structure? Is it just basically melting it?
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