Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water

Chinobi writes "Di Gao, an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, has developed a method of separating oil from water within just seconds using a cotton cloth coated in a chemical polymer that makes it both hydrophilic (it bonds with the hydrogen atoms in water) and oleophobic (oil-repelling), making it absolutely perfect for blocking oil and letting water pass through. Gao tested his filter successfully on Gulf Oil water and oil and has an impressive video to demonstrate the results." This is a laboratory demonstration; the technology hasn't been tested at scale.

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[Anonymous Coward]

first

does it come with dinner plates
and a spoon

Re:Awesome

[gstoddart]

Slashdot is supposed to be a refuge for the intelligent geek in the vast wasteland of the web

And many of those intelligent geeks have read enough literature to know that sometimes spelling can be adjusted to reflect actual speech patterns. Take for example, Pygmalion.

Of course, geeks like to play with language in new and innovative ways

The use of the word sayin' is hardly a "new and innovative way" -- it's a very old and established usage of an apostrophe to convey that the speaker did, in fact, intend the word to be pronounced differently than standard.

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