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• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depends on the salt used.

  If you check here on table 5 you’ll see that common table salt (NaCl) melts at 801º C.

  As for what’s used, in Chapter 2 of that paper they say “Molten salts consist of alkali metal or alkali metal halides and oxygen-containing salts”, no it’s not actually table salt for Generation 2 of those kind of power generators.

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks!

    Do you know of the melting temperatures of any other substance you think I may be interested in?

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