Oil Definition and 552 Threads

I love to eat those smoked oysters in cottonseed oil and it looks like the oil is reasonably healthy. I've read that it's one of the most unsaturated oils, comparable to safflower oil and corn oil. But then I read on another website that it might be very unhealthy because of all the pesticides...

As America (and much of the world) remains in awe over the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the tough questions about the adequacy of the Bush administration’s federal response, the extraordinary and never before seen price spikes in oil and gasoline, and questions arising over...

Can some one help me with this Milliken oil drop problem. Data from a Milliken oil drop experiment are given below. Calculate the value of the charge on an electron from this data: Voltage needed to suspend drop (V) Drop diameter (microns) 103------ 1.1 44.7----- 1.2 127------ 1.6...

Can some one help me with this Milliken oil drop problem. Data from a Milliken oil drop experiment are given below. Calculate the value of the charge on an electron from this data: Voltage needed to suspend drop (V) Drop diameter (microns) 103------ 1.1 44.7----- 1.2 127------ 1.6...

Someone was asking me about a new Russian oil refining process from the Boreskov institute, known as the BIMF oil refiniing method, that is supposed to significantly reduce the cost of refining oil into gasoline when applied to new plants. I really don't have much clue about chemical...

Revolving door of Iraq war reasoning---This time it's OIL Here we go. The kooks and nuts of America who thought this war was about oil from the beginning---I say this because many Bush apologists have minimized those who espoused this reasoning as the real reason as said crazies---have been...

I'm in the process of designing a high pressure hydrogen compressor. In this machine, an oil will be in direct contact with the hydrogen. To minimize the amount of oil vapor that enters the hydrogen and must be separated, an oil with high molecular weight and low vapor pressure should be best...

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1736

Hey, my aunt brought stocks in oil before the New Orleans incident How much will the New Orleans incident raise those stocks, if any? Thanks She didn't invest in NEW ORLEANS oil, just other oil I'm not sure where else I could find this info.. thanks I think she invested around...

Just for fun, I used to play around with liquids, and I noticed something odd. In an uncovered tall glass container, ~20 fl.oz., I made an emulsion of water and olive oil by mixing and blowing bubbles with a straw. (Go ahead, laugh.) I let this sit undisturbed on a window sill for a while and...

If this issue is covered under an existing thread please so direct me kindly. Otherwise, I'd like to hear about people's thinking on whether the current upward trend in oil prices will start acting as a brake on the economy, and even throw us back to the oil crisis days of the '70s. To have...

How does the oil between the piston and the casing manage to move with the piston? Is their no leak of the oil? And does the piston ring actually rub against the walls of the casing? Doesn't it generate too much friction? Does anyone know a good site where they show how the dimensions of...

One thing that I've absolutely never seen brought up is how aircraft will be effected by depleating oil supplies. We figured out that we can go to hydrogen powered cars when we figure out all the kinks in the system and setup a mass distribution system... but what about aircraft? I just can't...

An idea I had some weeks ago is genetically engineered plants that synthesize petroleum oil from hydrogen and carbon. If the need for such a thing was upon us in the next few years, how hard would it be to create oil-gourds, bamboo, algae etc.? Also to what level could huge fields of such plants...

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=82210

Government holds an auction to sell the right for oil exploration (and exploitation, if any found) on a tract of land to the highest bidder. Rules are: no reserve price; highest price wins and is paid; there will be a sale even if a single bidder shows up and bids zero. All potential bidders...

We can't sell Oil to the Chinese ... because it is a National Security comodity ... BUT ... CNET :smile: :smile: :smile: So ... What's that again?

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/acs-oc061305.php

U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan By Amiram Cohen The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7857167/ Top Kremlin operatives and a flamboyant Russian politician reaped millions of dollars in profits under the U.N. oil-for-food program by selling oil that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein allowed them to buy at a deep discount, a Senate investigation has...

Embargoed Book Claims Saudi Oil Infrastructure Rigged For Catastrophic Self Destruction By Huffington Post 05/10/05 "HP" - - According to a new book exclusively obtained by the Huffington Post, Saudi Arabia has crafted a plan to protect itself from a possible invasion or internal attack...

"A fuel tank is an upright cylinder, buried so that its circular top is 10 feet beneath ground level. The tank has a radius of 5 feet and is 15 feet high, although the current oil level is only 6 feet deep. Calculate the work required to pump all of the oil to the surface. Oil weighs 50...

I just have purchased an air compressor Nikota 2 hp., 4 gallon twin tank, 115 psi, and i was wondering what kind of oil i am supposed to put in the pump also i don't have any directions any suggestions? thanks

Which will dissolve in water Castor Oil or Potassium Iodide? thanks i need help on this question

World governments need to take an objective stance about the evils of oil and make definite actions toward eradicating our dependence on it. Here in the U.S. only an anemic attempt towards conservation and clean fuels has been realized. Our president religiously supports the petroleum...

Here's the question: Water and then oil are poured into a U-shaped tube, open at both ends, and do not mix. They come to equilibrium as shown in the figure below, where y oil = 26.9 cm and y water=18.6 cm. What is the density of the oil? (Take the density of water as 1000 kg/m3.) I know that...

:rolleyes: BAGHDAD COUP D'ETAT FOR BIG OIL Monday, March 28, 2005 Harper's Magazine investigation reveals how Big Oil vanquished the neo-cons ... and OPEC is the winner. "For months, the State Department officially denied the existence of this 323-page plan for Iraq's oil ..." Some...

In good faith, I've asked the heads of all the families to come here. We have the Moonbear family out of the Westside, the Tribdog Family from out west, the dextercioby family from across the sea, the PolyB family, the mattmns family from the Eastside, and all the other heads of all the other...

The oil industry has tried for more than 20 years to get access to what is believed to be billions of barrels of oil beneath the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in north-eastern Alaska. Now it seems they have won. Environmentalists have fought such...

In class today, we viewed an HBO movie called Dead Ahead that features the gruesome results plus causes of the oil spill in '89. Are recovery efforts still being done on Alaska's beaches as a result of the leakage of +11 million gallons of oil? Also, even though this spill is one of the...

Does anyone know if there have been any posts on the vegetable oil to diesel conversions. I am very interested in the topic, but couldn't find anything yet. I guess if there is nothing yet posted, this could be the new post. I'll try and get some of the info that I have and post it.

I am really curious as to what the minds on this forum think about Peak Oil. Set to hit around 2010, Peak Oil seems to get an insanely small amount of attention, especially considering that the 1970's oil crash was due to just a 5% decrease in oil production. After Peak Oil, it is...

Oil Floating above water...? Someone, please first answer this qn... Is oil denser than water? If yes, pls proceed... When an oil spill occurs at sea, why would the oil float above the water? If oil is denser than water, wouldn't oil be sinking to the bottom of the sea? Could anyone...

I have two physics problems on fluids that I'm stuck on and would appreciate any help! This is an algebra based physics class... (no calculus). 1. A solid cylinder (radius = 0.150 m, height = 0.120 m) has a mass of 7.00 kg. This cylinder is floating in water. Then oil (rho = 725 kg/m^3)...

Assume that an oil slick consists of a single layer of molecules and that each molecule occupies a cube .718nm on a side. Determine the area of an oil slick formed by 1.55m^3 of oil. Answer in units of m^2.

Hi. I have this BIG lab that is due really soon and I need ideas. We are going to find the molar enthalpy of edible oils (vegetable, canola, virgin, grape seed, sunflower). Since this is a big lab, we are going to be expected to relate molar enthalpy of the oil to something. Preferably...

Why do prices of gold change in the same country from city to city How is the price of oil determined?

How would I figure out the answer to this question (what formulas)? Here are the formulas I've been using for this homework assignment: PEe = -qEd V = W/q V = -Ed C = q/V Question: An oil drop having a charge of 8 x 10^-19 C is suspended between two charged parallel plates. The...

I have in other threads assumed that the pessimists are correct and that peak oil is happening this decade. Do anyone have more information if this is correct? Can alternatives like tar sands, oil shale or abiogenic oil be dismissed? The peak-oil-this-decade theory is advocated here...

If I was to put paint thinner, oil, and water in a jar (individually..not together)...and then stirred, which one would have the biggest vortex (depth)? I know I can do it, and I will for the other two, but don't have paint thinner. and what type of intermolecular bonding is present in each...

A thin film of oil (n = 1.46 is spread over a puddle of water (n = 1.33). In a region where the film looks red from directly above ( = 626 nm), what is the minimum possible thickness of the film? I thought this was simple but it says my answer is wrong. Ok the light goes from a smaller to...

I've been waiting for this to begin to leak. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6214647/site/newsweek/

another fun Ap phyiscs problem..short as usual: In one run of the oil drop experiment a 20 mg drop was suspended between parallel plates 1.5 cm apart when the potential difference was 300 V. Compute the number of excess electronic charges on the drop. is this just saying "compute the oil...

I'm having trouble with this problem below: 1000 cm^3 of oil is spilled onto a smooth lake. If the oil spreads out uniformly until it makes an oil slick just one molecule thick, with adjacent molecules just touching, estimate the diameter of the oil slick. The diameter of the oil molecules...

I have a question I wanted to ask, or more like your opinions? I have read about the new book that rescently hit the book stores shelves, called Out of Gas. The books talks about the fact that we will run out of oil in less then a decate, which scientists say will not happen that soon. And also...

Why doesn't kerosene oil catch fire when it is in bottle?

We recently did a lab where we were given an animation of the oil drop experiment, and we were supposed to find the velocity of the droplet when Fg and FQ were in the same direction (v1) and when Fg and FQ were in opposite directions (v2)... Then we found (v1 - v2) and were told to analyze and...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows the chemical properties, melting/boiling points or family group of cornstarch or vegetable oil? Thanks for your help and time!

http://cnn.usnews.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com+-+Halliburton+pulled+from+Iraqi+oil+contract+-+Dec.+30%2C+2003&expire=01%2F28%2F2004&urlID=8651662&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2003%2FUS%2F12%2F30%2Fsprj.nitop.halliburton.ap%2F&partnerID=2004 Question -...

The things that this US administration does continue to astound me. Sad but unfortunately true to form. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/03/1059849273357.html This executive order will have far-reaching consequences.