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by colechristensen 494 days ago
Half of chemistry/chemical engineering seems to be just various techniques of separation of the things you want from the thing you don’t want. Strong magnets might be unusual, but chemistry is full of doing strange things to get results.

I just watched the explosions and fire guy set fire to a mixture of things to synthesize something. If i remember correctly it was a glowing nanoparticle.