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Gang Pan, Professor of Environmental Sustainability, York St John University

Nanobubbles cleaned up the Lincoln reflecting pool: here’s how they could be used on dying seas and lakes

Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in the US, an ozone nanobubble system has been used to keep the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool clear.

Months before the celebrations a massive clean up of the pool had taken place, but despite this an algae bloom had turned the water bright green. To deal with this a US$1.7 million (£1.27 million) ozone “nanobubbler” injected microscopic bubbles into the pool.

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