The cotton fibers take up oil in multiple ways, including both absorption and adsorption

Cotton offers a new ecologically friendly way to clean up oil spills

By American Chemical Society Seshadri Ramkumar, Ph.D.—— Bio and Archives--May 15, 2013

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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research With the Deepwater Horizon disaster emphasizing the need for better ways of cleaning up oil spills, scientists are reporting that unprocessed, raw cotton may be an ideal, ecologically friendly answer, with an amazing ability to sop up oil. Their report, which includes some of the first scientific data on unprocessed, raw cotton’s use in crude oil spills, appears in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

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