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THREAD 🧵 Videos have circulated online of people dissolving Nurofen tablets in water to reveal black particles that they claim are 'graphene oxide'
— AFP Fact Check 🔎 (@AFPFactCheck) March 29, 2022
Health authorities, scientists and Nurofen's manufacturer told us these home experiments are baseless (1/5) pic.twitter.com/OFotzQ96xU
In the videos, people film themselves adding Nurofen painkillers to a glass of water and holding a magnet to the side, which attracts a swirl of black particles
— AFP Fact Check 🔎 (@AFPFactCheck) March 29, 2022
"The black on Nurofen tablets that we think is ink is actually graphene oxide," says a woman in one viral clip (3/5) pic.twitter.com/c9YEQSdo7d
Australian drugs regulator @TGAgovau said black iron oxide in Nurofen tablets was safe for human consumption
— AFP Fact Check 🔎 (@AFPFactCheck) March 29, 2022
Scientists added that graphene oxide particles would have a yellow-brown colour if dispersed in water, not black as seen in the videos https://t.co/fm78c7vts8 (5/5) pic.twitter.com/CBTUEbblR9
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— simonthong aka kitty poo (@KittyPo80176717) April 16, 2022
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-nurofen-magnet-idUSL2N2VE1MI
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I suspect that the following video is of a faked experiment.
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