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- noun Plural form of
ferrofluid .
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Liquid suspensions of magnetic particles, called ferrofluids, are already used as industrial lubricants and in loudspeakers and computer hard disks.
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Liquid suspensions of magnetic particles, called ferrofluids, are already used as industrial lubricants and in loudspeakers and computer hard disks.
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Liquid suspensions of magnetic particles, called ferrofluids, are already used as industrial lubricants and in loudspeakers and computer hard disks.
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For instance, ferrofluids flow to place where the magnetic flux -- the strength of the magnetism -- is strongest.
Boing Boing 2009
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And as cool as ferrofluids are, what do they teach in a chem class?
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And as cool as ferrofluids are, what do they teach in a chem class?
Top 10 Mad Science-Worthy Chemistry Experiments » E-Mail 2009
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Filmmaker Kim Pimmel combined ferrofluids, a magnet, soap bubbles, and dye to create this mesmerizing short video.
Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2011
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Montre Ferrofluide is a concept watch that uses ferrofluids - a suspension of magnetic particles in liquid - to create the watch face.
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The key ingredient for these studies was the synthesis of non-toxic ferrofluids by colleagues Bappaditya Samanta and Vincent Rotello at the University of Massachusetts, who developed a method for coating the magnetic nanoparticles with bovine serum albumin (BSA), a protein derived from cow blood.
innovations-report 2009
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One of the unique properties of these ferrofluids is that they become highly magnetized in the presence of external magnetism, which allows researchers to readily manipulate the chain formation by altering the strength of the magnetic field.
innovations-report 2009
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