Changing Shape: Oil Clear
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: By understanding the importance of shapes and, in some cases, experimenting with new shapes, scientists are alleviating age-old problems. Oil refineries, though important to our society, constitute a serious pollution hazard. They expel an effluent of water, with tiny oil droplets suspended in it. So British scientists created a material which forces the droplets to coalesce. The droplets increase in volume, rise to the surface and are skimmed off.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Pollution; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries; Fuels
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/194
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'Changing Shape: Oil Clear', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 194. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325830 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)