Separating Cobalt From Nickel (Cobalt From Li-ion Batteries - Part 4)

To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/ScrapScience . The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. With this last separation, the basics of the lithium-ion battery extraction come to a close. With the mixture of cobalt/nickel metal that we made in the last instalment, we apply a solvent extraction process to separate the two metals from each other. As it turns out (and as many suspected), there's a lot more cobalt than nickel in our sample, but nickel is still a significant component. To check out the other videos in this series, check out this playlist:    • Extracting Lithium/Cobalt From Li-ion Batt...   This video was sponsored by Brilliant.