Attempting to make a ferrofluid

In this video, I'll be attempting to make ferrofluid from the ferric chloride and ferrous sulfate that I made in a previous video. At first, I thought that this project would be really straightforward, but it turned out to be much more difficult than I thought.

I am going to be working more on this project, and I hope that soon I'll have an easy method to make it from relatively easy to get chemicals and supplies.

References:
• Coated nanoparticle photo source: https://goo.gl/CtTsxU
• Making Iron (II) sulfate: Recreating one of the weirdest reactions
• Making Iron (III) chloride: Making Prussian Blue

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