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Why were ferrofluids originally developed?

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Ferrofluids were originally developed and classified in the 1960s by Stephen Pappell at NASA as a method for controlling fluids in space. NASA initially used them as rotating shaft seals in satellites and are now being used to serve the same purpose in a variety of machines.

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