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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words
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Oil Obsorber
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It might look and even feel like paper, but a new material created by scientists at MIT is designed to be an oil spill super-absorber. This technology debuted in a recent issue of Nature Biotechnology, scientists designed a mesh of nonowires made of potassium manganese oxide. The mesh is dried in much the same manner as cellulose is treated to make paper. Between the nanowires are tiny pores that act like capillaries to absorb liquid—again, like a paper towel. But the wires have a coating that repels water. In fact, researchers say this material can be left in water for a month and, when taken I out, will still be dry. But oil can seep into those pores. The nano paper can absorb twenty times its weight in oil. And it can be reused.
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