STEAM in History: Fionn Ferreira

Inventor • Environmental Activist • Entrepreneur
Born 2000 • Ireland

Ferreira mixed light vegetable oil and magnetite powder in polluted water, forming a ferrofluid (magnetic liquid). He then used a magnet to attract and remove microplastics.

Ferreira is working to create global water treatment solutions with his invention.

Read more about Ferreira’s story in STEAM in History: Fionn Ferreiraopen_in_new.

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