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16 comments:
That was a really cool article. Its so cool how a magnet attracts oil like that
I agree.. I thought that the second part of the article and the images were really amazing. The details of how they made the nanomagnet-oil mix surround and transport the other oil was really great. I wish that I could have seen the video, but it was blocked for people that hadn't subscribed. x3
Wow! Thats so awesome! We can clean up oil spills, simply using tiny magnets, and pulling up the oil with bigger magnets!! That's so cool! This is definitely a big step forward, and we are going to learn a lot on how to clean up future oil spills with this method!! They should try putting small fish in water, adding a tiny bit of oil, using the magnet technique, and seeing if it harms the fish.
Although this is a great idea, there are still a lot of flaws in it. Like they said at the end, they need to figure out how to recover the magnets at the end. I don't know if this is chemically dangerous in any way, but it is a good idea, none the less.
I agree with all three of you. I posted a comment before but it didn't show up... Anyway, I liked this article a lot and I think that it's really cool that magnets can attract oil. By the way, Danielle, maybe people should try the fish experiment on something non-living first...
I thought that was awesome. Maybe it will be used some day to clean up oil spills.
I think that it is really interesting that nano magnets can actually attract oil. I sounds like a great way to eventually clean the sea. The only part I didn't like was the overall style of writing. The info was really neat!
I think that that is a very interesting topic and article. But the magnets could get lost in the ocean, since they are so tiny. If one piece of human hair is 80,000 nanometers, and one magnet is one nanometer, than that's really small!!! Other than that, I think that it is a very good idea and could help us clean up oil. But it would be better if they could find out a way to make a bigger magnet that does the same thing, so that they don't have to use a ton of really small magnets.
This discovery could really help in cleaning up oil spills, but it still has a long way to go. They would need millions of nanomagnets to clean up, and as they said in the article, they are not cheap. So far it probably wouldn't help in cleaning up oil spills, but it's a good idea, and probably could be used if they fixed the little flaws
I thought that this article was really cool. This will also prevent marine life from dying with the chemicals that they are using now. I agree with Dani, this is a HUGE step forward!
WOW!!! THat is sooooooo awesome! I agree with Danielle and Emma. This IS a big step forward and they could really use this for future oils spills. They should test this on non-living animals first though(Emma said this too).
This is a very interesting article! Some day this amazing find could greatly benefit our society. I agree with Danielle, it would be a good idea to test the magnet in oil with a fish. If the fish is fine, we could keep it the way it was. However, it is harms the fish we might be able to come up with a new magnet that would clean up the oil, but not harm fish or other aquatic life.
I LOVED THIS ARTICLE!!!!! This can REALLY help oil spills. They say that nanomagnets can cost a lot, so what if they use what nature provides us with? If you read the very first article about the material absorbing oil, the material is made up of 96% air! If there was something that works like a magnet that is provided by nature, why not use it? Also, I just had an idea of using a HUGE electro magnet!!!! That would be so cool!
This is awesome....they are thinking up of many new alternative ways to cleaning up oils spills!! I wish they would've came up with this discovery earlier, because it doesnt seem like it would be harmful to the animals in the water.
That's great they found out another way to clean oil spills but the question is doesn't it harm the animals less. I mean that is the magnents pull the animal life inwards it will kill more than before but if it pushes it away scientists just suceeded again! It is pretty cool that people is finding out stuff for the new generation to use which includes me.
While I don't think this invention is perfect, I do think it has potential. If we used monopole magnets (the ones that act like electricity) instead if standard magnets, you could move the oil quickly (other magnetic fields could not effect them). Also, since you can conduct electricity with monopoles, you could potentially make a machine that is made of monopoles or carbon nanotubes (I think that is what they are called) that could be put on an oil ship. if the machine had a ring on the bottom, it could then move the oil around. Then, you could block off the bottom, catching the oil. Then, you could raise the machine up. This way, no aftereffects would remain in the water (i.e. nanomagnets).
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