Magnetite nanoparticles are an essential ingredient to a possible new PCB filtration method.

I remember reading “A Death in Venice” and being amazed at the density of the writing.  Each sentence was packed with so much meaning (and so many layers of meaning) that I needed to re-read them several times.  I experienced the same feeling when reading the title of this paper: “Enrichment of Polychlorinated Biphenyls from Aqueous Solutions Using Fe3O4 Grafted Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes with Poly Dimethyl Diallyl Ammonium Chloride.”  I needed to parse the phrases within the title and I ended up rewarded with the meaning.  The paper outlines a nanotechnological approach to cleaning PCBs from contaminated materials, using magnetite nanoparticles prepared with the assistance of an ultrasonic cleaner.

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