Ferrofluid according to Wikipedia is “a liquid which becomes strongly magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field.”
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I bought the Ferrofluid and the magnets online through this very cool Swiss store, although there are many tutorials online that explain how to make your own.
The trickiest part is finding a suspension liquid, since Ferrofluid stains everything it touches, if you put it in a bottle just by itself, it will stain the glass and you won’t be able to see anything, this is why the bottle has to be filled with another liquid where the Ferrofluid will be “suspended” in.
The problem that all online sources don’t really agree on what type of liquid that would word best, I experimented with the following:
- Burning alcohol —> Ferrofluid lost many particles and became a powder
- Distilled water —> Stained glass, ferrofluid shapes were very weak
- Mix of distilled water and alcohol —> Stained glass a bit and ferrofluid looked weird
- Calcium residue cleaner —> Ferrofluid floated
- Window cleaner and alcohol —-> Promising, but ferrofluid was still looking like sand
- Window cleaner —> Best results
Filling the bottle with only a windows cleaning liquid gave me the best results, the glass was not stained, ferrofluid kept it’s shape and I was able to see all the cool effects since it’s a clear liquid.
It has been more than 24 hours so far and the ferrofluid is still looking good in the bottle.
The choice of the bottle is very important, as it must be a good quality glass and squared (never rounded), otherwise you will not be able to see the ferrofluid effects due to refraction.
