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Aqueous Vapor Extraction: A Previously Unrecognized Weathering Process Affecting Oil Spills in Vigorously Aerated Water R O G E R C . P R I N C E , * ,† ROBERT T. STIBRANY,† JEFFREY HARDENSTINE,‡ G R E G O R Y S . D O U G L A S , ‡,§ A N D EDWARD H. OWENS| ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co., Annandale, New Jersey 08801, A. D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140, and Polaris Applied Sciences, Bainbridge Island, Washington 98110
Simple evaporation of spilled oil is usually thought to be restricted to the smaller hydrocarbons (
