Scientists say a key component of the chemical dispersant used to fight the BP oil spill last year was found up to 200 miles from the wellhead two to three months after the dispersant was injected into the stream of oil and gas escaping from the ill-fated well. Chemist Elizabeth Kujawinksi of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution led a team of scientists which found that the chemical dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (DOSS) remained in a plume of oil that drifted away from the well, and that little or no biodegradation had occurred.
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