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How can chemistry help to clean an oil spill and reduce its impact?
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Dispersants help to degrade oil into naturally occurring substances quicker. Dispersants can be applied directly to spilled oil, and help to remove oil from the water surface where it is especially harmful. It does so by first breaking the surface oil slicks. As dispersants contain molecules with both a hydrophilic and lipophilic end, these molecules attach to oil, thus reducing interfacial tensions between the water and the oil, which helps break the oil slicks. After breaking the oil slicks, it disperses oil as fine droplets into the water column through natural mixing actions such as wave action and turbulence which dilutes the subsurface oil concentration. This disperses oil from water surface to water column. Afterwhich, oil is dispersed by currents and is subjected to natural processes such as biodegradation, which will render oil harmless.
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