And they wanted to use a soluble salt of citric acid, so they could have used sodium, they could have used potassium.

The XRD characterization and chemical analysis of boron concentrates and tailings showed that pinnoite and calcined gypsum has been basically separated through reverse flotation.

The polymer foils irradiated by heavy ions can be used as templates to prepare metallic nanowires and some inorganic salt nanowires. It is called "ion-track template method".