home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!taligent!apple!equinox!whitbeck
- From: whitbeck@equinox.unr.edu (Michael Whitbeck)
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: Oil Spills
- Message-ID: <4842@equinox.unr.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:50:16 GMT
- References: <92318.230825KRK4@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Organization: University of Nevada, Reno
- Lines: 19
-
- In article <92318.230825KRK4@psuvm.psu.edu> KRK4@psuvm.psu.edu (Kyle R. Krom) writes:
- >
- > I've been reading about the efforts to clean up the Alaskan coastline
- >since the Exxon Valdez incident, and was thinking... what exactly is the
- >major difficulty with cleaning up oil spills in the water? It can be
- >reasonably contained, and it floats on the top, so why can't it be scooped
-
- some floats, some sink, some dissolves, some
- disperses as colloidal (microscopic) droplets
-
- >up somehow? Please feel free to elaborate a bit, since I have several
- >questions, depending on the responses to this basic problem.
-
- The gunk that sticks to the shoreline
- rocks/sand/gravel (and seeps in some) is probably a
- significant part of the residual problem.
-
-
- Mike W.
-