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MinuteEarth — Metal Plants. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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No, literally, it's a rare metal hoarding plant whose bluish green sap, when dried out, is 25% nickel. That's 10 times more nickel than the typical nickel containing ore found in nickel mines. In fact, these plants are actually planted in abandoned nickel mines to take the leftover nickel out of the soil, which keeps the toxic metals from leaching into waterways and makes the land viable for other uses like farming. And these metal hoarding plants are even planted in particularly nickel-rich land, then harvested and processed to extract enough metal to return a profit.
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