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Living Sculptures Made From NASA Rocket Fuel

By Will Levith
April 26, 2016 5:50 am

Japanese artist Sachiko Kodama creates sculptures using NASA-invented Ferrofluid, a jet-black liquid, with magnetic properties, used in the 1960s to help draw fuel to pumps in complete weightlessness. Watch Kodama breathe life into the Ferrofluid with a magnet.

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