The words “I need a spill-kit to aisle such-and-such immediately!” yelling in over the walkie-talkie never fails to send chills up my spine. Whenever I hear those words‚ I picture that a bomb of paint exploded in the aisle and left everything and everyone in the aisle white as flour. As I am walking the wheeled spill cage toward aisle 75‚ I can see a crowd starting to gather. The closer I get‚ the stronger the fresh paint smell gets. I can start to see white specks of paint outside of the aisle
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talk to you about you about the political chemistry of oil spills and why this is an incredibly important‚ long‚ oily‚ hot summer‚ and why we need to keep ourselves from getting distracted. But before I talk about the political chemistry‚ I actually need to talk about the chemistry of oil. This is a photograph from when I visited Prudhoe Bay in Alaska in 2002 to watch the Minerals Management Service testing their ability to burn oil spills in ice. And what you see here is‚ you see a little bit of
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THE EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL Whats an oil spill ? Oil spills happen when people make mistakes or are careless and cause an oil tanker to leak oil into the ocean. There are a few more ways an oil spill can occur. Equipment breaking down may cause an oil spill. If the equipment breaks down‚ the tanker may get stuck on shallow land. When they start to drive the tanker again‚ they can put a hole in the tanker causing it to leak oil. The Exxon Valdez oil spill: On March 24‚ 1989 at 4 minutes past
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Today we arrived in Germany I’m excited to see all the sites and learn about a new country’s culture. Our plans for today is to check into our hotel Brandenburger Hof Berlin ‚ I have to say from the minute we entered the beautiful hotel the staff was quite welcoming. This afternoon we are going to visit some shops and eat at an authentic German restaurant called Maximilians. After supper we called it a early night because everyone was tired from the 17 hour plane ride. I can’t wait to go explore
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EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL Relevant Facts On March 24‚ 1989‚ there were several ruptured tanks of the Exxon Valdez that allowed approximately 11 million gallons of crude oil to pour into the Gulf of Alaska. As soon as this happened‚ it started what would be described as one of the most dreadful environmental disasters in the history of oil drilling. A few months after‚ there were enormous surges of wind and waves that caused the oil to spread further out into the shorelines of Prince
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this problem. Firstly the causes of this problem is the attitude of human. The human attitude nowadays really disappointing. They do not have the love feeling to the nature and throw garbage or any chemical substances anywhere including the river‚ the sea and any water sources. So this chemical substance will harm the water and we as the user will use the water without notice that we use the contaminated water. Slowly or in the long term our body will be affected. Besides that. the excessive used
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill ABSTRACT In March of 1989‚ the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound‚ Alaska. An eighteen foot wide hole was ripped into the hull‚ and 10.9 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the ocean. In the following weeks‚ many things transpired. This paper will discuss the cleanup‚ the damage‚ and the results of the biggest oil spill in United States history. On March 24‚ 1989‚ in Prince William Sound Alaska‚ the Exxon Valdez was moving
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1. What are the major issues in the Liebeck case and in the following incidents? Was the lawsuit “frivolous” as some people thought‚ or serious business? The major issues in this case include how hot the coffee should be‚ when to draw the line on making a case outrageous and how corporations are supposed to please customers without worrying about being sued. I believe that the lawsuit was frivolous because of the amount of money that was being asked for. It is common sense that when you order coffee
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Assignment 5 Sheet Harbour Chemicals Sheet Harbour Chemicals (SHC) manufactures chemicals used in the paint industry. The process involves three departments. Chemical A‚ which is purchased for $3 per liter‚ is processed through Department 1 in batches of 100 liters. Each batch of chemicals processed through Department A produces 70 liters of chemical B and 30 liters of chemical C. Chemical B is sold for $10 per liter. Chemical C is used in Department 2 to produce chemicals D‚ E‚ and F. Department 2
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Chemical Engineering In the future I would like to become a chemical engineer. I really enjoy chemistry and hands on work “Chemical engineering is the application of chemistry to large scale industrial systems.” (Chemical engineering). I enjoy helping build different things like skateboards‚ ramps and‚ fixing parts on different things. When I took the sixteen personality quiz it said I was a virtuoso. The virtuoso likes hands on work and exploring ideas which I think fits my personality perfectly
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