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Liquid Oxygen from Lunar Rocks

Posted by timothy on from the mine-the-moon dept.

SIInudeity writes "A South African chemical engineer has come up with a way to produce liquid oxygen from lunar rock. Oosthuizen is a co-inventor of the Ilmenox process, named after the process' ability to produce oxygen from the lunar mineral ilmenite. The process extracts oxygen from moonrock, which are metal-oxides that may contain up to 30 or 40% oxygen. By means of electro-chemical equipment, which has now been patented, the oxygen and the metal in the moonrock are split."

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  1. Re:Long term environmental impact. by MindStalker · · Score: 3, Funny

    We then travel from world to world extracting all of their natural resources and enslaving their populations.