For example, the state has lost out on $832,000 over the last five years due to charging varying royalty rates for sodium chloride extraction — a deficit of over $166,000 annually.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Extraction Of The Salts Of Sodium And .Potassium From The Mother Lye Of The Mediterranean Salt Pits. ” in Scientific American ...

We found that we can actually use table salt, sodium chloride, to basically extract the lithium from the ore. Nobody has done this before to the best of my knowledge.

Although 1,500 mg of sodium per day is enough for adults, most people have much more than this amount: The average American consumes more than 3,400 mg of sodium each day.