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 Crayons, plastics, heating oil, jet fuel, kerosene, synthetic fibres and tires are all originally made from...

There are many oil spills that occur every year. They harm the environment, the plants, the animals, and the people who live near it. People can clean up the spill. The environment takes the disaster of an oil spill and the follow a natural process to clean itself. Oil spills are dangerous to ever...

Since the beginning of time, human being's have taken advantage of the oceans by using them as a dumping ground. Soda bottles, food wastes, plastic pellets, old tires, fishing equipment, and many other types of debris are dumped into the oceans. This senseless act is killing innocent sea anim...

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...

Outline 1. Introduction to open water waste disposal. 2. Introduction of oil into marine environments. 1. Effects upon environment. 2. Effects upon living organisms. 3. Introduction of plastics/pollutants into marine environments. 1. Effects upon living organisms. 4. Possible solutions to w...

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...

Organic Chemistry - Manufacture of soaps and detergents SOAPS The chemical reaction that produces soap is called saponification. It occurs when a hot caustic alkali solution, such as caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), acts on natural fats or oils to produce a smooth, semisolid, fatty acid salt (s...

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...

The Effect of Humans on The Environment AIR The Greenhouse Effect/Global Warming What is it? The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature that Earth experiences. What causes it? Global warming is an increase in the earth¡s temperature due to the use of fossil fuels...

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...

The lively, family oriented Grand Strand, a booming resort area along the South Carolina coast, is one of the eastern seaboard's largest vacation centers. Myrtle Beach, whose population explodes from 26,000 to 350,000 people in the summer, is single handedly responsible for 40% of the state's touri...

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...

1990, the federal Clean Air Act was passed to improve air quality in the United States. President Bush's proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act initially would have led to the introduction of alternative, non-petroleum fuels. The petroleum and oxygenate industries responded by offering a refo...

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...

In 1990, the federal Clean Air Act was passed to improve air quality in the United States. President Bush's proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act initially would have led to the introduction of alternative, non-petroleum fuels. The petroleum and oxygenate industries responded by offering ...

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...