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Harvesting Gold Nanoparticles WIth Alfalfa Plants

Posted by timothy on from the buckwheat's-next dept.

Rocky Mudbutt writes: "An international research team from the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) and Mexico advanced the work at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL). Ordinary alfalfa plants are being used as miniature gold factories that one day could provide the nanotechnology industry with a continuous harvest of gold nanoparticles. Alfalfa extracts gold from the medium and stores it in the form of nanoparticles -- specks of gold less than a billionth of a meter across according to a press release from Stanford Linear Accelerator Center."

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  1. hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    interesting

  2. Natural environment by masterkool · · Score: -1, Troll

    The artical stated that the alfalfa was grown on artificial, gold-rich "soil". That seems a bit too controlled and they had to have soil with gold allready in it.

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  3. They should harvest marijuana plants instead... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ~USD400/oz., more precious than your "gold".