Thursday, August 19, 2010

Chemical Dispersants

What are the exact ingredients of chemical dispersants, such as Corexit?

Why don't we use the much less toxic Dispersit?

Dispersit is 20-70% more effective than Corexit.

How do chemical dispersants work?

2 comments:

  1. The ingredients in the chemicals vary because of the 2 different dispersants. They both contain organic sulfonic acid salt and propylene glycol. The difference is the third ingredient, 9500 has distalles, and 9527A has 2-Butoxyethanol.

    Because if they lessen the toxic, the oil wouldn't be removed by the chemicals. The aerosol form would even have less effect on the oil and just add to the toxin.

    I can't really answer the last one since it isn't a question

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  2. 1.there are two types of dispersant
    2.because then it wouldn't be so affective
    3.they turn the oil into droplets and make them rise to the surface

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