/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12260963
The sun

>>12260963
Plasma torch

>>12260963

ICPMS

>>12260963
Yeah it's called time machine

>>12261003
this

Yes it's called an elementalizer, it kinda looks like a bong, but with many outputs for the different elements. It only divides nitrogen carbon hydrogen and oxigen, though, the rest goes out through a pipe labeled 'etc', but at least you can have a buchet of hydrogen or carbon and take it to the element market and get a few bucks for it.
Very nice thing to have until one of your stoner friends puts in weed and ends up inhaling a bunch of etc.

>>12261036
Me and my friends like to play elementalizer roulette, hate when I end up getting the etc pipe potassium gives you the WORST high

>>12261001
it only disgregates stuff, it doesn't pull the various elements away from each other

>>12261105
apply a centrifuge.

>>12261036
Cool. Where can I buy one?

>>12260963
The idea has been explored to a degree, but in practice no such device exists.

>>12260963
Only practical way I see it being done is with chemicals, filters and nano-machines. I imagine the costs currently outweigh the benefits.

>>12260963
Our digestive tracts, retard.

>>12260963
>Is there any device that can disgregate anything you put into it
Put at 5000°C under argon and distill.

>>12261169
Oh btw all this must be done inside a magnetic field since it would otherwise melt your container

>>12261173
We are already inside many huge magnetic fields. The earth's and the sun's to begin with. So am I good?

>>12261205
no if you don't want to go search your products in the thermosphere

>>12261036
you cheeky bastard

>>12261191
Isn't there only enough iron in the human body to make a single nail? You would get 2 or 3 paperclips per human at best. Not very efficient.

>>12260963
Yes, it's called a Santa Clause machine. Fusion torch in one end to reduce all input materials into their ionized atoms, flow the mass through a magnetically contained tunnel (think LHC) with specific exit gates tuned to the charge of only a single element/isotope. You get isotopically pure raw materials by this process.
The other imagined half of the machine is various additive manufacturing components able to produce any object from the raw materials.
The whole thing requires huge energy abundance, but measured by speed of matter dissasembly should be efficient.

>>12260963
>>12261001
>>12261105
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_torch

>>12261270
>>12261316
Thanks that's precisely hat I needed.

>The whole thing requires huge energy abundance
How much energy if I wanted to process, like, 1Kg of matter a day?

>>12261036
I love you anon.

>>12261126
Nice, has someone ever tried to design a factory using such a process?

>>12261263

clippy is made out of graphene

>>12261385
We are talking ongoing nuclear explosion level of energy, to convert just air to plasma requires heating it to more than 50 000 degrees Kelvin. The fuel needs to at the very least be fusion reaction, preferably aneutronic fusion as otherwise you need to use some kind of heat exchanger to avoid neutron activating everything.