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A 12-year-old in Colorado built a lead detector out of carbon nanotubes after watching the Flint water crisis unfold, and her sensor can test water in seconds instead of sending a sample to a lab and waiting days for the result


A child's dinner-table anxiety about contaminated water became a working prototype that could transform how communities detect toxic metal exposure.

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