How to clean up oil spills using magnets

Oh , ferrofluids , is there anything you ca n’t do ? researcher led by MIT ’s Markus Zahn have excogitate a technique for separating oil colour from water . Using magnets . Tiny , tiny magnets that temporarily transform polluting rock oil into a magnetically tractable ferrofluid .

Zahn and his team say that after separating the fossil oil from the water , the magnetised nanoparticles themselves could then be slay from the vegetable oil and stored for later use . “ The cognitive process may seem simple , ” says Zahn , “ but it is , inherently , supposed to be round-eyed . ”

Well then , Zahn . We ’re glad your team make out up with it .