LIGHT SWEET CRUDE - MISNOMER

THE GREAT OIL SPILL in THE GULF of MEXICO

Light - of relatively little weight

 

Sweet - having the taste of sugar;

low in sulfur content : sweet fuel oil.

Crude - being in an unrefined or natural state; raw; 

a dark oil consisting of mainly of hydrcarbons. 

Hydocarbons - Any class of compounds composed only of carbon  hydrogen. Hydrocarbons are principal constituents of petroleum & natural gas, lubricants, & raw materials for production of plastics, fibres, rubbers, solvents, & industrial chemicals. All burn to carbon dioxide and water with enough  oxygen or to carbon monoxide without it.

All but the simplest hydrocarbons have ISOMERS, see isomerism. Ethylene,methane, acetylene, benzene, toluene, & naphthalene are hydrocarbons.

Misnomer - a name unsuitably applied

to something.

 

This oil spill violates the sacred place that is OUR Gulf Coast - the shorelines, the economy, the livlihoods,  the ecology, the life forms that live and breed there, the birds that migrate through, and the people who live and breathe the Gulf. 

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