The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills, and thereby ...

Oil is more dense than alcohol, but less dense than water. The molecules that make up the oil are larger than those that that make up water, so they cannot pack as tightly together as the water ...

Bacteria like A. borkumensis are important for degrading oil pollution, so these findings are of significant interest.

There will be a little dissolving in the alcohol but not nearly as much as in the water. In the oil, you probably will not be able to see any dissolving. The candy coating is made up of coloring and ...

Here, microorganisms use the seeping oil as a source of energy and nutrition and thereby fuel the carbon cycle. Because microorganisms preferentially break down water-soluble organic molecules ...

Although it rarely exists on its own on Earth, it can be produced using clean energy to split essentially inexhaustible water molecules ... by coal and then oil. This overwhelmingly uses a ...