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		quacksilver 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quic... Cheap and recycled cookware or cooking oil would be up there on the list of interesting things to check imho - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cml2kr9wkdzo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00686-7 Anywhere in the supply chain to a streetfood stall, or mom and pop restaurant or cornershop/bodega equivalent could have substitutions made that other people in the chain may not notice

grumpy-de-sre 5 months ago [–]

Do wonder if it could be unintentionally being alloyed into recycled aluminium etc. Though I'm not sure if that's more likely than upstream routes.

Good old scientific mystery.

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