The picture of dorian gray
... top of the house, the picture of Dorian Gray grew older every year. The terrible face showed the dark secrets of his life. The heavy mouth, the yellow skin, the cruel eyes - these told the ... passed, the face in the picture grew slowly more terrible. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde retold by Jill Nevile OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1989 The Picture of Dorian Gray of my ... intelligent, of course, but with The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian stood and listened. He could hear nothing — only the drip, drip of blood onto the floor. The Hand of a Killer again. The murdered...
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... and hung them over the side. ey talked to each other across the theatre, and shared their or- anges with the tawdry painted girls who sat by them. Some women were laughing in the pit; their voices ... of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowa- days. ey have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable. ey feed the ... one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ey always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over they propose...
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The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup - Chapter 2 docx
... severity of the spill. The purpose of contingency plans is to coordinate all aspects of the response to an oil spill. This includes stopping the flow of oil, containing the oil, and cleaning it up. The ... serious. As the seriousness of an incident is often not known in the initial phases, one of the first priorities is to determine the magnitude of the spill and its potential impact. Alerting the first ... contingency plan for this phase of the operation and the importance of a high level of training in first response. Stopping the flow of oil is a priority in the first phase of the operation, although response...
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The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup - Chapter 3 pps
... properties. These properties influence how the oil behaves when it is spilled and determine the effects of the oil on living organisms in the environment. These properties also influence the efficiency of ... United States, the price of a specific oil may be based on its API gravity, as well as other properties of the oil. Solubility in water is the measure of how much of an oil will dissolve in the water ... that it would be the equivalent of approx- imately one grain of sugar dissolving in a cup of water. The flash point of an oil is the temperature at which the liquid gives off sufficient vapours...
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The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup - Chapter 4 ppsx
... Through the process of dissolution, some of the most soluble components of the oil are lost to the water under the slick. These include some of the lower molecular weight aromatics and some of the ... the future. In addition to predicting the trajectory, these models can estimate the amount of evaporation, the possibility of emulsification, the amount of dissolution and the trajectory of the ... by the force of gravity and the interfacial tension between oil and water. The viscosity of the oil opposes these forces. As time passes, the effect of gravity on the oil diminishes, but the...
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The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup - Chapter 6 potx
... water line to the top of the boom. The skirt is the portion of the boom below the floats or flotation that helps to contain the oil. It is usually made of the same types of fabric as the freeboard ... The freeboard member is the portion of the boom above the water, which prevents oil from washing over the top of the boom. The term freeboard is also used to refer to the height from the ... by the amount of flotation and the weight of the boom. This means that the float must provide enough buoyancy to balance the weight of the boom with the force exerted by currents and waves, thereby...
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The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup - Chapter 7 potx
... much on the thickness of the oil, type of oil, sea state, and many other factors. **This is the percentage of oil in the recovered product. The higher the value, the less the amount of water ... variety of factors including the type of oil spilled, the properties of the oil such as viscosity, the thickness of the slick, sea conditions, wind speed, ambient temper- ature, and the presence of ... releases of oil between the regeneration area and the area where the sorbent is used. The capacity of a sorbent depends on the amount of surface area to which the oil can adhere as well as the type of...
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The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup - Chapter 8 pps
... tanks are often used as separators, with outlets installed on the bottom of the tanks so that water that has settled to the bottom of the tank can be drained off, leaving the oil in the tank. ... or truck. The vacuum pump creates a vacuum in the tank and the oil moves directly through a hose or pipe to the tank from the skimmer or the source of the oil. The oil does not go through the pump, ... or piston to the exit of the pump. The oil and other material with it must move through the chamber because there is no alternative passage, thus the name “positive displacement.” The screw ...
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The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup - Chapter 9 potx
... type of dispersant applied, sea energy, salinity of the water, and water temperature. The composition of the oil is the most important of these factors, followed closely by sea energy and the ... velocity of the water/dispersant mixture can herd the oil away, resulting in the loss of dispersant to the water column, where it has little effect on oil floating on top of the water. Toxicity of ... rapid clearance of the oil in the dispersant drop zone without the formation of the usual white to coffee-coloured plume in the water column. This is very detrimental and wastes the dispersant....
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The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup - Chapter 10 pdf
... technique, the integrity of the source of the spill and the possibility of further spillage is always a priority. If there is any possibility that the fire could flash back to the source of the spill, ... oxygenation of the oil. Similar analysis of the residue shows that the same minority compounds are present at about the same levels. The bulk of the residue is unburned oil without some of the volatile ... content in the oil did not affect either the ignitability of the oil or the efficiency of the burn. Chemical emulsion breakers can be used to break down enough of the emulsion to allow the fire to...
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The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup - Chapter 11 ppt
... shoreline, and others to conditions at the time the oil is deposited on the shoreline, such as weather and waves. These factors include the type and amount of oil, the degree of weathering of the oil, ... and sensitivity of biota on the beach, and the steepness of the shore. Other important factors are the existence of a high tide berm on the beach, whether the oil is deposited in the intertidal ... shorelines. All of them are costly and take a long time to carry out. The selection of the appropriate cleanup technique is based on the type of substrate, the depth of oil in the sediments, the amount...
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ASSESSING the ACCURACY of REMOTELY SENSED DATA - CHAPTER 1 ppt
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ASSESSING the ACCURACY of REMOTELY SENSED DATA - CHAPTER 2 pptx
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ASSESSING the ACCURACY of REMOTELY SENSED DATA - CHAPTER 4 pot
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