Around 200,000 Tons of Deep Water Horizon Oil and Gas Consumed By Bacteria

In principal, chemically, all of oil could be processed, with potential release/consumption of water and carbon dioxide.

In terms of elements, chemically, oil actually is pretty clean, it's just basic organic elements of life, as every one of you knows. Oil pollution problem is a result it's physical properties: viscosity, density, etc. Which results from oil being bunch of rather long polymers.

Theoretically, it does not make sense for bacteria that consumes oil to produce polymers longer than oil polymers,

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/-TcDvMUOLhI/around-200000-tons-of-deep-water-horizon-oil-and-gas-consumed-by-bacteria

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