As for the United States, which has the world's second largest rare earth reserves, it also mothballed the country's largest rare earth mine, the Monting Pass mine, in 2002, and the production of molybdenum has also stopped, and it has turned to a large number of imports from China every year. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWestern European countries have not many reserves, so they cherish their rare earth resources even more, and they are also important users of rare earths in China.

The greed of the developed countries is manifested in the fact that, in addition to the needs of production, they not only purchase excess through government appropriations and store them in warehouses in their respective countries -- this practice has been practiced by the East Wa, the United States, South Korea and other countries for many years, in addition to purchasing, but also circumventing Chinese laws through investment and other means, participating in the development of rare earths or directly inducing Chinese rare earth smuggling, and engaging in open plunder.

Dongwei is the loudest voice in exaggerating the worry of rare earth shortage, Dongwu has no rare earth mines, but it is the world's largest producer, producer and exporter of rare earths. Although it has purchased and stockpiled rare earths from Huaxia that can be used for 100-300 years, it still takes a big step towards finding cheap suppliers of rare earths around the world.

It has the vast majority of precious resources, but it has no pricing power, which is the eternal pain of China.

There is no way, too many rare earths were exported in the early days, so that Europe and the United States, Dongwa, and South Korea stored a large number of rare earths.

Rare earths are not the same as some other metal resources and oil. The world only needs 120,000 tons a year, which is a very small amount, and many of them are stored by countries with strategic foresight, rare earths are not such as iron, copper, aluminum, oil and other resources consumed in large quantities, but like monosodium glutamate, a little bit of strategic elements can play a huge role.

Those application powers that are really needed have long had a large reserve of Huaxia's rare earths at low prices, so Huaxia's regulation of rare earths will not threaten them at all. They hyped up, in fact, they wanted Huaxia to continue to supply them with rare earths at unreasonable prices. At the same time, they consume the strategic resources of Huaxia with unique advantages, and when Huaxia's advantages turn weak, they will sell them to Huaxia at an extremely expensive price. This is exactly how several major rare earth importers compete with China.

This is why, as soon as China exports iron, copper, oil and other resources, the price plummets, and when it is China's turn to import these, the price will grow wildly, and the root cause of this is the containment of China by these big countries.

But in the final analysis, the reason is that Huaxia's scientific and technological strength is too weak, knowing the preciousness and scarcity of these resources, as well as the situation faced in the future, but there is still no way, so we have to export these resources, make some shirts, toys and other low value-added in exchange for foreign exchange, in exchange for technology, even if it is subject to the other party's malicious price reduction.

Take a very simple example, the top scientific research results are abroad, and the papers published are also in foreign newspapers and periodicals. Inviting a top foreign scholar to come to China for exchange, or Huaxia's own scholars to go to a foreign university for an exchange visit, all of these require foreign exchange.

This is why, from the founding of the People's Republic of China until around 2010, Huaxia has been crazy about foreign exchange squeezing, and the reason for the forced settlement of foreign exchange is that there is no way, it is too short.

Chu Hao selected some rare earths according to the idea in his heart, as well as twenty kilograms of titanium, and after weighing, Tian Jitong counted on the calculator, "A total of 2,356 pieces." ”

One kilogram is counted as an experiment, this number is obviously much cheaper than the price of Tian Jitong's experimental consumables of 200 yuan just now, after all, Chu Hao is about to start the experiment with a real knife, he naturally doesn't dare to play any false head, and as for concealing corruption, he doesn't dare.

Chu Hao nodded, this price is similar to what he thought in his heart, although titanium is a rare metal, but the reserves are actually very rich, among all the elements in the periodic table, the storage of titanium is ranked tenth.

The first place is oxygen, that is, 21% of the air is oxygen, and the content of the earth's crust accounts for 48.6%, and the second place is silicon, which is widely found in rocks, gravel, and dust, that is, there is silicon in any handful of soil. The ninth place is hydrogen, which is mainly stored in water, and it is needless to say how big the sea is, how much water there is, and in the universe, the content of hydrogen is the first, a hundred times more than all the remaining elements combined.

Next is titanium, whose storage capacity is 61 times that of copper, but the distribution is scattered, which makes mining difficult, so the price is relatively high, but it is only more than 100 pieces a kilogram.

Although the remaining rare earth is known as industrial gold, it is not gold after all, compared to the price of 23,000 kilograms of gold, the price of rare earths is drizzle, the cheapest cerium 5.6 pieces a kilogram, the most expensive terbium 1000 more than a kilogram, and the most important thing is that the amount is small, at most a few grams at a time.

"Senior Brother Tian, then you can take me to the laboratory to have a look. Chu Hao said.

Hearing this, Tian Jitong nodded and turned his head and walked away, and at the moment he turned, a trace of an inexplicable thief smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He just waited for Chu Hao to see the dumbfounded appearance of the large number of steel-making instruments, but he would be kind enough to help, no matter what, he wanted Chu Hao to waste all the ten thousand yuan, if he could squeeze Chu Hao out, take the lead of the experiment, and take the opportunity to do some experiments he wanted to do, it would be great.

When he came to the laboratory, Chu Hao saw that there were air heat treatment furnaces, cryogenic treatment boxes, box-type resistance furnaces, pit resistance furnaces, vacuum ion nitriding furnaces, well-type pulse gas carburizing furnaces, aging furnaces, medium and high frequency induction heating devices, etc.

The types of material performance testing instruments are also relatively complete, such as Lowe hardness tester, microhardness tester, corrosion velocity tester, scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive instrument, Leica metallographic microanalysis system, atomic force microscope, ordinary metallographic microscope, metallographic photo printing and magnification device, metallographic sample setting machine, polishing machine, stereo microscope, etc. are also relatively complete.

Basically, everything that should have been there.

Everything in Chu Hao's mind is in the formula, to be honest, it is not used in the laboratory, Chu Hao can also write out all the metal parameters he needs to develop, and compile a decent paper.

But considering that if he asked where the experiment was done in the future, he would always have to have an explanation, so he tried his best to come to the materials laboratory, just to stop others.

As for Chu Hao, he only planned to do only fifty or sixty sets of experiments to develop a special alloy, this kind of earth-shattering thing, Chu Hao didn't consider it, after all, he did the experiment, and it came out so quickly, it can only be said that he was lucky.

After all, how many scientific research results are obtained by chance, no one can say anything.