CRUDE OIL Crude oils are unprocessed oils mined straight from the oil source. Crude oils are such a useful starting point for so many different substances because they contain hydrocarbons. Crayons, plastics, heating oil, jet fuel, kerosene, synthetic fibres and tires are all originally made from...

Comparing the Viscosity of Water and Engine Oil The viscosity of both water and engine oil was determined. The method used involoved filling a bottle with water first and measuring the time a marble took to travel from one point to the other using a stopwatch. This was repeated for the engi...

Cause and Effect: Water Pollution Water pollution progresses every day in our lakes, oceans, rivers, and other bodies of water that we see and use in many ways. Water is essential for all living things to survive, yet people still pollute it. It's pretty sad to be taking a trip to the beach...

We tend to think of water in terms of a particular purpose: is the quality of the water good enough for the use we want to make of it? Water is fit for our own use but may be unfit for another's. We may, for instance, trust the quality of lake water enough to swim in it, but not enough to dri...

Mangroves are woody plants or plant community's which live between the sea and the land in areas that have tides. Therefore they are found on coastlines all around the world where the water is warm enough. They can be trees but (like a 'rainforest plant') they can also be shrubs or p...

The kitchen is over one hundred-thirty degrees, the waitresses are yelling out orders, the hosts come back hollering, "Forty-top just sat down in the south," the popping of the grease as the fish fries louder than the rest. There is pure chaos in the kitchen as the restaurant keeps fillin...

POROSITY: Porosity is the best known physical characteristic of an oil reservoir.It determines the volume of oil or gas present,and all recovery computations must be based on knowledge of its value. Porosity of a material is defined as that fraction of the bulk volume of this material that i...

After the technological boom that our society experienced in the last couple of decades, people are returning to some basic environmental values. People in more developed countries, particularly Europe, are more environmentally conscious than ever. Our planet is a great resource, but we can not ex...

Water pollution has been a problem for a very long time. There are many different kinds of water pollution. Water pollution causes many problems with the living plants and animals in the water.Water has always been used to carry away unwanted trash. Since the beginning of civilization people have us...

How To Make A Strawberry Cake Need a great desert for a party? A vanilla cake with pink icing, cut strawberries on top with drizzled glaze down the sides should work just fine. The first thing is to gather all materials needed. Check your cupboard for a vanilla cake mix, to get the best ris...

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has become a widespread process with companies trying to benefit from the newly developed method for extracting oil and natural gas from wells that were once thought tapped. North America uses the technique more than any other country (85%) however the method of frac...

Problem: Out of "Dawn", "SunLight", and "Dove", which brand of dish-washing detergent performs best at a variety of tests? Experimental Design: Three brands of dish-washing detergent will be tested for pH level, flash-foam formation, foam stability, relative vi...

Sustainability for Maine life is a constant fight involving several factors, the availability of light and nutrients, global warming, excessive fishing and human activities that trigger destruction. Phytoplanton is the algae and photosysthetic bacteria that grow as single cells or in small groups...

How to Protect and Keep Our Water Supply Lake Catoma is the only water source for Cullman County and some portions of Morgan and Winston County. We only have the same amount of water today that we did when the Earth was formed so we need to use it sparingly. Less than one percent of the Earth's wa...

OLIGARCH ESSAY The Oligarch's disregard for the welfare of anyone or anything but themselves has proven quite hazardous to the environment. The Oligarch corporate heads, however, continue to deny any responsibility for the release of chemicals found to be killing huge numbers of amphi...

Water Pollution Water pollution must be stopped. Thousands of animals die each year from water pollution. Water pollution was originally caused by need of space (to dump trash). The dumping of garbage was caused by the lack of space in landfills. Instead of recycling some people started d...

Calcium chloride is used for such things as dust control, road deicing, and to assist in oil and gas drilling. It is easily manufactured for a variety of sources; underground brines in Michigan, a by-product of hydrochloric acid streams, and soda ash can harbor calcium chloride. For years the m...

Thermal Pollution: A Global Problem Recently, as a result of the increased energy demand, we've allowed our planet to begin overheating. With the introduction of more and more heated water into our lakes and rivers, and Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere we've managed to raise the temperature of ...

Water in all its forms is the essential ingredient to life. Fresh water is crucial to our survival in many ways, can improve our quality of life, and make our lives easier and more enjoyable. Because water is such an imperative part of everyone's lives, we must all work together to conserve th...

Chemical Name: Benzoyl Peroxide (C14H10O4) Benzoyl peroxide is the main compound found in several different pharmaceuticals for treating acne, food additives, as polymers, and catalysts in several different reactions. Other common names for this compound are; Oxy-10, Panoxyl, Benzagel 10, Benzoic...

The morning dew lies heavily on the ground. The fog is thick as you near the waters edge. The only illumination is from a distant street light near the marina, an orange halo of light surrounds the bulb. The water looks like it is liquid coal at this time of morning and there is a chil...

There is a time in your life when you realize how significant a former stage in your life was. It is a time when all your senses go way back, and you can feel, hear and smell the same things you did when you were a child. During my childhood years, there was no better pleasure than my grandmother\'s...

Alternatives to the Clean Water Dilemma Because of our increasing populations around the world, more and more of our clean drinking water is being used and contaminated. The world needs to take action immediately. Implementing one plan will not save our drinking water, but instead several di...

The Jurassic Period took place about 210 million years ago. It went on for about 70 million years. The Jurassic Period was one of periods in the Mesozoic Era.The life forms that were present during the Jurassic Period were not all of the life forms in "Jurassic Park." The Tyrannosaurus rex and Trice...

The History of SoapMost people washed themselves with only one essential thing at the time, water. This, of course, happened until the development of soap in 2800 B.C. The soap was found in clay cylinders during the excavation of ancient Babylon. There were inscriptions discovered on the cylinder...