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    Oil Paintings

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    OIL PAINTINGS One of the images that I’m most fond of is the “Madonna and Child with the Chancellor Rolin” by Jan and Eck. This piece is one my favorites because it uses oil. When using oil the images of the paintings seem to realistically speak to me. This particular painting enables both fusion of tones and crisp effects and is unsurpassed for textural variation. The standard consistency of oil paint is a smooth‚ buttery paste. In this scene it depicts the Virgin crowned by a hovering Angel while

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    Oil Drilling in the Arctic

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    The Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge is one of America’s last great wilderness areas. It is home to many animals such as polar bears‚ wolves‚ and grizzly bears‚ caribou herds‚ snow geese‚ musk oxen‚ and dozens of other species. If your oil companies keep drilling in the Arctic‚ most of these beautiful creatures will die‚ and some will become extinct. The Coastal Plain is home to these animals. Annually‚ a herd of 129‚000 caribou gather on the Coastal Plain to bear and nurse their young. Polar

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    Oil Of Wintergreen

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    Synthesis of Aspirin from Oil of Wintergreen Objectives: In this experiment‚ the Oil of Wintergreen is put into an Erlenmeyer flask containing sodium hydroxide to create sodium salicylate. The solution is then refluxed which means that the solution will be boiled in a base‚ then condensed in a condenser. This replaces the carbon on the ester at carbon 1‚ with an oxygen atom which will have an ionic bond with a sodium anion. This yields sodium salicylate which will be acidified in methanol

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    Lorenzo's Oil

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    STUDY GUIDE LORENZO’S OIL Overview Lorenzo’s Oil is the story of the Odones’ race against time for the survival of their little boy. Lorenzo at age 6 develops a classic childhood case of Adrenoleukodystrophy. Augusto and Michaela Odone work tirelessly with little assistance from the medical community and the parent support group to find a therapy to stop the progression of this devastating disease. In 2001 Elizabeth Spike‚ a high school biology teacher in Rochester‚ New York‚ chose to show a film

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    Greenwashing It is now popular to be environmentally conscious in American society. It is completely acknowledged by the populace that oil will‚ indeed‚ run out within a lifetime‚ leaving a demand for a different kind of energy source. Hybrid cars‚ such as the Prius are now mainstream‚ recycling is day-to-day‚ finding organic fruits‚ vegetables‚ and meat is as easy as walking to the nearest grocery store‚ and using plastic bags has been deemed unacceptable. Global warming‚ while debated and questioned

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    Domestic Oil Drilling

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    English 102 Monday 6pm 2/13/2012 Domestic Oil Drilling: Benefits and Risks. Senator Everett Dirksen once noted “The oilcan is mightier than the sword”. In today’s world‚ it is easy to see why oil can be considered the most important resource to hold. Without oil‚ many of the common day occurrences we take for granted would be impossible. Oil is used for almost everything; from the fuel used to drive our vehicles‚ to the plastics used in every facet of life‚ and providing the heat needed to live

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    Arctic Oil Drilling

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    Gas prices are increasing roughly every month or so as a result of the scarcity of oil. Some people just shrug the price increase off and cope with it‚ but the economic effect is far greater than it first appears. As the price of oil increases‚ so does the price of all other products that are transported. There is‚ however‚ an opportunity for the United States to increase the supply of available crude oil by drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The idea of drilling in the Arctic has

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    Oil Extraction

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    to complete extraction are important. If these two elements are not taken into consideration‚ the extraction may not be complete‚ or the extract may contain a large quantity of undesired impurities. The natural fats and oil are mixtures of glycerides of fatty acids. Fats and oils are naturally occurring organic compounds which belong to a large group of water insoluble substances called lipids. Lipids are relatively non-polar molecules‚ they can be pulled out of a sample using relatively non-polar

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    Oil and Gas

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    Midstream Gas Processing Frac Spread What is it? Why is it important? The Midstream Value Chain Gathering / Processing NGLs Fractionation Transportation Storage Marketing Chemicals‚ fuels‚ blend stocks Residue Gas Transportation Storage Marketing Utilities‚ industrial Most Raw gas produced at the wellhead is not pipeline quality Must be processed Ethane Propane Normal Butane IsoButane Natural Gasoline How midstream companies make money Gathering – fee/ commodity based Processing

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    OIL On Canvas

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    Two regular people with an extraordinary love. No matter how bad it gets they will prevail. This OIL ON CANVAS painting tells an exceptional story about love‚ conflict‚ compassion‚ resolution‚ and friends. It shows the couple dancing in a rainstorm‚ one person holding an umbrella over the couple‚ with the CANOPY protecting them from rain. Another person running for cover from the rain. It seems as if the dancing couple is completely ignorant of the rain. The artist isn’t talking about a light

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