Sentences with phrase «underwater oil droplets»
Using microscopic video recordings, the team showed that underwater oil droplets flowed continuously along the needles at a rate of 2 millimeters per second, similarly to the way water moves along cactus needles, the team reports online today in Nature Communications.
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After the dispersant is applied, the tiny droplets of oil follow the water currents in underwater plumes.
He envisions that arrays of the needles could be submerged several meters underwater to collect oil droplets, which could then be sucked up by a tanker.
Baruch Rinkevich, one of the lead authors on the study, believes the mixture is deadly because the droplets of oil get pulled deeper underwater and come into direct contact with the corals.