New magnetic soap could be used to clean up oil spills
When oil gets spilled in a waterway, clean-up crews will often introduce a solution known as a surfactant. This is a detergent that lessens the surface tension between the water and the overlaying oil slick, causing the oil to form into individual droplets which then sink or get dispersed by wave action. Unfortunately, such detergents aren’t entirely environmentally-friendly themselves, so the use of them on oil spills has been criticized as simply replacing one pollutant with another. Now, however, scientists from the University of Bristol have created a magnetic soap, that could be removed from the water once it had done its job... Continue Reading New magnetic soap could be used to clean up oil spillsSection: ecoGizmoTags: Cleaning, Eco-friendly, Environment, Magnetic, Oil, Pollution, University of Bristol Related Articles: Soap delivers morning caffeine fix Soap MP3 player makes cycling good, clean fun No Washing Powder Required Spray on stockings released in Japan Dissolving food stickers also was
New magnetic soap could be used to clean up oil spills
When oil gets spilled in a waterway, clean-up crews will often introduce a solution known as a surfactant. This is a detergent that lessens the surface tension between the water and the overlaying ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from Gizmag
Magnetic soap hope for oil spills
Researchers have demonstrated the first soap that responds to magnetic fields.
Mon 23 Jan 12 from BBC News
Magnetic soap could clean up oil spills
The particles in a new form of soap contain a metallic centre that responds to a magnetic field
Mon 23 Jan 12 from Newscientist
World's first magnetic soap produced
Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a soap, composed of iron rich salts dissolved in water, that responds to a magnetic field when placed in solution. The soap's magnetic ...
Mon 23 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
World's first magnetic soap could clean sticky messes
Most of us think of soap as a way to make stuff less sticky. But a new process actually ups the stickiness of soap itself -- by making it magnetic.
Sat 28 Jan 12 from FOXNews
World's First Magnetic Soap Could Clean Sticky Messes, Tue 24 Jan 12 from Livescience
World's first magnetic soap might revolutionize oil spill clean-ups
University of Bristol scientists have developed a magnetic soap, which basically is a common soap only it’s filled with iron atoms that causes the targeted waste material to become magnetized. ...
Wed 25 Jan 12 from ZME Science
World's First Magnetic Soap Invented
The first magnetic soap ever could revolutionize cleaning.
Wed 25 Jan 12 from Discovery.com
New Magnetic Soap Could Clean Oil Spills With No Suds Left Behind
Oil Spill Cleanup Sea turtle experts clean a small Kemp's ridley turtle with a toothbrush in June 2010, during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A new magnetic soap could be used to clean ...
Wed 25 Jan 12 from Popular Science
World's first magnetic soap could revolutionise pollution clean-up operations
Scientists from the University of Bristol made the soap by dissolving iron in chloride and bromide ions, similar to those found in mouthwash or fabric conditioner.
Tue 24 Jan 12 from Daily Mail
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