How to Use dispersant in a Sentence

dispersant

noun

• That Corexit would be the first line of dispersant defense in the Gulf makes sense.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 7 May 2010
• The theory is that without the use of dispersants, the oil would have surfaced and been dealt with.
  — al, 19 Apr. 2020
• Many in the seafood industry were hired by BP to help with the cleanup, but afterward, when fishing restrictions were lifted, consumers were scared to eat shrimp from waters so recently rich with oil and dispersant.
  — Francesca Mari, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2020
• The simulation found that the dispersants would not have achieved even minimum effectiveness.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Other studies indicate that dispersants harmed fish, crab and other marine life.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• The whale has already suffered through the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and the spraying of potentially toxic oil dispersants.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• Sunlight impairs dispersants' ability to break up oil into droplets.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Each formulation has 10 to 12 ingredients, like binders and a dispersant that can interact with each other.
  — Interview By Patricia R. Olsen, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
• Too much of a specific dispersant can affect catalyst performance and reduce fuel economy.
  — Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
• In both lab experiments and fieldwork after Deepwater Horizon, scientists found that exposure to hydrocarbon compounds in oil and dispersants used to break down slicks during the spill harmed individual fish.
  — F. Joel Fodrie, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2020
• Too much of a specific dispersant could affect catalyst performance and reduce fuel economy.
  — Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2019
• But the heavy use of dispersants during Deepwater Horizon stirred controversy both over its effectiveness and biological effects.
  — Kevin McGill and Matthew Brown, Houston Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2020
• Past administrations have waived environmental reviews after disasters that require real-time decisionmaking, like managing debris after Hurricane Katrina or deploying oil dispersant after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
  — Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 5 June 2020

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