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Sunday, May 4, 2008

The Magic Of Ferrofluids

This is an old school video but I still consider it cool enough to be blog worthy. If you aren't familiar with ferrofluids, here's a quick primer from Geekologie:

A ferrofluid (from the Latin ferrum, meaning iron) is a liquid which becomes strongly polarized in the presence of a magnetic field. It is a colloidal mixture comprising extremely small magnetic particles suspended in a liquid. The particles are coated with a soap or detergent to prevent them from clumping together.
Basically, it's a kick-ass black liquid that forms cool spikes and shapes when it's exposed to a magnetic source. It kind of reminds me of the symbiot in Spider-Man 3, only more geometric:

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