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Bricks Can Be Turned into Batteries

Bricks Can Be Turned into Batteries

Update: 2020-09-102
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Pumping cheap iron-oxide-rich red bricks with specific vapors that form polymers enables the bricks to become electrical-charge-storage devices.




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