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‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists

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The blobs have washed up hundreds of beaches in Newfoundland , Canada , for more than a month .

Chemist Chris Kozak and graduate students at Memorial University ran tests on the white, doughy blob.

Kozak 's team's initially hypothesized the blobs were a polyurethane foam used for insulating boats in the fishing industry.

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