Researchers at the University of Warwick have demonstrated how using magnets, oxygen may be produced in microgravity.
Gas bubbles are drawn to a single location by the magnets, where they combine. This can take the place of the bulky equipment used to extract gas in space’s low gravity.
In space, there is no inherent buoyancy. The most important issue that the current magnet experiments address is this one.
On Earth, gas bubbles originating from liquids rise to the top naturally, but in places with low gravity, bubbles stay suspended in the liquid state.Centrifugal force is used by large equipment aboard the international space station to push gases out.
