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- From: gtd205a@prism.gatech.EDU (Hody Crouch)
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: Oil Spills
- Message-ID: <74975@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:29:26 GMT
- References: <74956@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Nov16.152825.6769@news.clarkson.edu>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- In article <1992Nov16.152825.6769@news.clarkson.edu> rajat@sunny1.che.clarkson.edu (Rajat Kapoor,P303,2124) writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- The vast majority of the oil that is able to be cleaned up is collected in the
- initial stages of the spill. I don't know that exact percentages, but I'd
- estimate that the vast majority is cleaned up within a few days. The
- other 6 months is spent cleaning up the relatively small percentage that is
- left. Unfortunately, it doesn't take much oil to do quite a bit of damage.
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