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residual oil [rə′zij·ə·wəl ′ȯil] (materials) Petroleum-refinery term for combustible, viscous or semiliquid bottoms product from crude oil distillation; used in adhesives, roofing compounds, asphalt manufacture, low-grade fuel oils, and sealants. Also known as liquid asphalt; resid; residuum; tailings. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This $80 billion company converts low-cost residual oil and heavy crude oil into cleaner-burning, higher-margin energy products. The soil-derived particles showed a wide range of potency, a necessary condition for doing a correlation study, and several of the soils induced an IL-6 response that was comparable with the response induced by soluble vanadium, the major active component in residual oil fly ash (Samet et al. In fact, the journal Science published a study in December 2003 that found residual oil harmed salmon eggs for at least four years following the spill, and that significant amounts of crude remains on the sea bed, where it poisons mussels and dams--and by extension the animals that feed on these creatures, including otters and ducks. |
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