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Environment | An accidental or intentional discharge of oil which reaches bodies of water. Can be controlled by chemical dispersion, combustion, mechanical containment, and/or adsorption. Spills from tanks and pipelines can also occur away from water bodies, contaminating the soil, getting into sewer systems and threatening underground water sources. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An oil spill is the release of crude oil into the natural environment, usually the ocean.
Studies of the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill have shown that the environmental damage caused by oil spills is greater than was previously thought. It is now thought that the impact on marine life can be serious at less than one part per billion of pollution.
Heavier components of crude oil, such as polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) appear to cause the most damage; while they are relatively unreactive they persist in the water much longer than volatile components such as toluene.
Experiments have shown that less than half a part per billion of PAHs is sufficient to burst the cell membranes of marine life. Researchers have theorized that PAHs affect the structure of the DNA of fish.
See also: Prestige.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Oil spill."
Crosswords: OIL SPILL |
| English words defined with "OIL SPILL": contained. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "OIL SPILL": National Response Team ♦ Regional Response Team. (references) |
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 | IXTOC 1 oil well blowout in Bay of Campeche Oil spill studied by RESEARCHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Boomed marshes containing oil spill. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Oil containment boom placed in Swanson Creek, tributary to the Patuxent River, after oil spill at power generating plant. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Dead surf clams washed up on South County beaches after the oil spill. An estimated biomass of 400,000 Kg. of surf clams died in the spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Nine million individual lobsters were killed during the oil spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Spill response and clean-up at the oil spill site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A natural eelgrass bed off Sakonnet Point, RI. Eelgrass was one of the habitats affected by the oil spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Basic facts and figures about the World Prodigy oil spill incident. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A slide depicting the resources injured during the oil spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A test planting of smooth cordgrass on the East Timbalier marsh platform. This planting was done as restoration for the Lake Barre oil spill and was not CWPPRA funded. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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Health | Major industrial accidents attributed partly to errors made by fatigued night-shift workers include the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear power plant accidents. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Taiwan | During the year, the ship's master and the chief engineer of the Greek cargo vessel M/V Amorgos were prevented from leaving the island for 8 months while the Environmental Protection Agency negotiated with the shipping company's agent on compensation for damages caused by an oil spill when the ship ran aground off the coast of southern Taiwan on January 14. They were allowed to depart the island in August. (references) |
Political Economy | Ecuador | This year, the U.S. Coast Guard cleaned up an extensive oil spill that damaged and threatened the delicate and unique ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "OIL SPILL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | διαρροή πετρελαίου. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 原油流出 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | '"ゆりゅうしゅつ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oilay illspay нефтяной разлив. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-l-l-l-o-p-s" | |
-3 letters: lolls, pilis, pills, polis, polls, spill, spoil. | |
-4 letters: ills, lips, lisp, loll, lops, oils, pili, pill, piso, pois, poll, pols, sill, silo, slip, slop, soil, soli. | |
-5 letters: ill, lip, lis, lop, oil, ops, pis, poi, pol, psi, sip, sol, sop. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-l-l-l-o-p-s" | |
+3 letters: ellipsoidal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 49 4C 53 50 49 4C 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01001001 01001100 00100000 01010011 01010000 01001001 01001100 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O I L   S P I L L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0049 004C 0053 0050 0049 004C 004C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49434625350434646 |
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