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Synonyms for tar

a person engaged in sailing or working on a ship

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Synonyms for tar

any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

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coat with tar

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The tarmat and tarball samples were collected from the Alabama-Mississippi shoreline in 2011 during Tropical Storm Lee (Hayworth et al.
The Shimadzu's Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) was used in ATR mode to study and explore the chemical bonding characteristics of soil samples, beach sand, tarmat and tarball. The FTIR instrument operates in a single-beam mode and is capable of data collection over a wavenumber range of 400-4000 [cm.sup.-1] with a resolution of 0.5 cm Beach sand collected before the BP oil well explosion was used as reference baseline.
Physicochemical characteristics of oil spill soils, tarmat, tarball and other sediments collected from the Gulf of Mexico
This study aims to understand the physicochemical characteristics of the 2010 BP oil-spill soils and sediments such as oil contaminated soil, tarmat and tarball which have been collected from various locations of Gulf of Mexico.
Abstracts the 90th Annual Academy of Science meeting Samford University Birmingham, AL March 20-22, 2013
THE PYROLYSIS OF BP TARBALLS. AMBER SMITH, JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY.
We have used thermal pyrolysis to analyze oil residue in tarballs collected at Gulf Shores, Alabama, after the April 2010 BP disaster.
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