An Irish teenager, Fionn Ferreira, has won a global science award for his project researching the use of magnetic liquid to filter microplastics from water.  Google Science Fair challenged teens from around the world to solve a problem they care about using science, technology, engineering and maths.

Ferreira’s idea was the extraction of microplastics from the world’s oceans using a magnetic liquid called Ferrofluid.  It is a non-toxic magnetic liquid that consists of oil and magnetite (iron oxide powder).  In the presence of water, it attracts the microplastics because of the non-polar properties of both.

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An Irish teenager, Fionn Ferreira, has won a global science award for his project researching the use of magnetic liquid to filter microplastics from water.  Google Science Fair challenged teens from around the world to solve a problem they care about using science, technology, engineering and maths.

Ferreira’s idea was the extraction of microplastics from the world’s oceans using a magnetic liquid called Ferrofluid.  It is a non-toxic magnetic liquid that consists of oil and magnetite (iron oxide powder).  In the presence of water, it attracts the microplastics because of the non-polar properties of both.

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