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Material made from citrus fruit peel could help clean up oil spills

Material made from citrus fruit peel could help clean up oil spills

6 February 2019

Pomelo peels have been ground down and turned into an aerogel – one of the lightest materials in the world – that could be used to clean up oil spills

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