We need a GERN thread

[ezdays]

According to the experts on this forum, flux is present in copious quantities most everywhere, and not difficult to extract or process at all, given that it is widely used in both high-end and low-end, mass-market products such as back pain pills, food additives and so forth. When did that change?

I guess I must have missed those posts. I tried hard using my A.C. Gilbert chemistry set (handed down to me from generations before me) and I was unable to do it. I even used all my resources, the public library, the Internet and even my college's technical library and came up dry. I therefore concluded that if there was so little knowledge of the process, it must be difficult to do hence, the reasons for treating it as a high value commodity. If you have a cheap way of extracting the product so that it's within at least 3% of being pure, you could make a fortune. it may be abundant, but I'm lead to believe that it's not that easy to get.

If I'm wrong about this, then you might also consider that maybe, just maybe, someone is trying to corner the market, artificially driving up the price of this product. Others have tried. :o