SAN FRANCISCO -- Here's something you don't expect to see.

A-Z Comp, a startup from Russia, wants to use graphene, a type of carbon molecule, to clean up oil spills. When oil spills into the ocean, it sticks together in a muddy pool. You can actually move a tiny slick around with your hand.

When graphene is sprinkled onto the slick, the oil slick breaks up. The oil bonds to the solid and then gets swept out of the water when the graphene gets sucked up. Picking out the graphene is like pulling out sand. Watch it in the video. There was no oil left in the bucket.

Another cool thing: Graphene is incredibly light. The spice jar full of graphene weighed only a few ounces. Far less the salt.

"Scientists in labs can make graphene, but we are the only ones to produce it in production quantities," said Alisher Abdul, the CEO.