home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Path: sparky!uunet!clarkson!news
- From: rajat@sunny1.che.clarkson.edu (Rajat Kapoor,P303,2124)
- Subject: Re: Oil Spills
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.152825.6769@news.clarkson.edu>
- Sender: news@news.clarkson.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: sunny1.che.clarkson.edu
- Organization: Clarkson University
- References: <74956@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:28:25 GMT
- Lines: 21
-
- From article <74956@hydra.gatech.EDU>, by gtd205a@prism.gatech.EDU (Hody Crouch):
- >
- > Well, the method that you suggest cleaned up the vast majority of the spilled
- > oil. The coast guard and other organizations put out large booms and the oil
- > was 'skimmed' off the top of the water.
-
- Maybe, at the initial stages of the spill. Oil can quickly spread over to
- cover large areas of water, theoretically, perhaps to monolayer
- thickness ( volatility of oil and other bulk properties may not
- aquatic life.
-
- To this end I recall the terms as "breaking the oil" in the news...
-
-
- > 1. Some of the oil reached land, where it coated the shoreline, and any
- > animal on it. Once on the shore, oil becomes extremely difficult to clean up.
- > And even if it is cleaned up, much damage has already been done.
-
- The problem could be mutual pollution of Sand <=> Sea water. Remedy one,
- Kapoorer re-pollutes...
-
-