Material extracting system and method

Abstract

A system for deoxidizing metals that includes (a) a grinder configured to grind oxidized metallic material into an initial (preimpact) mixture of tiny oxidized metallic particles, suspended in water; (b) a preimpact separator configured to separate the particles into two groups based on their respective physical properties, one group being a preimpact mixture comprising the compound particles including oxidized metal; (c) a HIT-type kinetic impactor configured to generate a series of high voltage electrical discharges in water, thereby creating plasma explosions that both impact the particles suspended in water and, of those, electrochemically reduce the suspended oxidized metal particles into de-oxidized metallic particles; and (d) a postimpact separator configured to extract the reconstituted (deoxidized) metallic particles from the water solution.

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