A team of researchers at Rice University has developed a faster and cleaner method for recovering aluminum and removing toxic metals from bauxite residue, or red mud, which is a hazardous by-product ...

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A team at Rice University has unveiled a fast and cleaner method to extract aluminum and strip toxic metals from bauxite residue, also called red mud. The hazardous by-product of aluminum production ...

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Red mud is a toxic byproduct of the industrial process that refines bauxite, raw aluminum ore, into aluminum oxide, or alumina. (Alumina is put through a separate process, electrolysis, to make ...