Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sides of the Atlantic have just demonstrated two new substances that seem to do well at cleaning up oil-fouled waters. In the U.S., Guardian Chemical Co. of Long Island City, N.Y., has produced a hydrocarbon known as Poly-complex A. When the new substance is sprayed on a slick, it breaks down the oil into tiny particles, combines with them and forms a chemical complex that is readily degraded by bacteria, sunlight and air. "The bacteria have a hard time tackling a big oil slick," says Guardian President Dr. Alfred R. Globus. "It's like eating a rubber...
...demonstration on the Delaware River, eleven gallons of 50% Polycomplex A were sprayed on a 110-gallon oil slick. In two minutes, only a thin brown film remained; soon that disappeared. Similar tests conducted in tanks ashore proved just as successful. Six parts of Kuwait crude oil-the type carried by the Torrey Canyon-were dispersed by one part of Polycomplex A in five minutes...
Proven Principle. On the same day, Esso Petroleum of Great Britain held an oil disposal demonstration at its Fawley refinery near Southampton. Technicians poured a barrel of crude oil on a pond, then covered the slick with a shredded polyurethane foam developed by J. Bibby & Sons of Liverpool. The foam quickly turned black as it absorbed the oil. The oil-soaked foam was then simply trapped and towed ashore, where Esso showed how the oil could be pressed out for reuse...
...routine exercise of expert craftsmanship. Accepted opinion holds some symphonies and concertos of Brahms to be works of tremendous profundity; I hear in them only the pretension to profundity." Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and Mussorgsky rank higher with Haggin than with most authorities. Puccini and Ravel he dismisses as perpetrators of "slick trash...
Divorce American Style is a slick, cynical film that paraphrases Comedian Ed Wynn's definition of divorce as a hash made of domestic scraps...