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Leftover crops release carbon back into the atmosphere, mostly through decomposition, but turning agricultural waste products into a valuable industrial material called silicon carbide (SiC) — offers a way to make CO2 an economically and industrially valuable material. SiC, also known as carborundum,is an ultrahard material used in ceramics, sandpaper, semiconductors and LEDs. Salk Institute researchers have transformed tobacco and corn husks into SiC.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210506163626.htm