black mass
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Those materials can be recovered from black mass through recycling processes such as chemical processing or smelting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
In Europe, EV batteries are currently shredded into "black mass" that is shipped to China for recycling.
From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023
That black mass is then processed to make battery-grade material for the battery’s cathode.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
A machine then shreds the packs to separate plastic, aluminum and copper from a black mass that contains crucial ingredients such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and graphite.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
The dispersed figures had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
