Storm oil
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storm-oil-165-15140664
title:
Storm oil
text:
Storm oil is described as nearly water-insoluble oil acting as a surfactant, and has been used since ancient times to smooth ocean waves. It has been historically employed to facilitate sea rescues and improve navigational safety, involving pouring the oil onto the ocean surface to reduce wave intensity. The nearly immiscible spilled oil acts as a surfactant, accumulating on the surface, and as waves locally stretch or compress, it leads to a concentration gradient inducing tangential shear forc
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Oil spread from ships to calm waves
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_oil
date created:
2013-09-24T22:13:58Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T13:14:02Z
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13
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