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SCIENCE AND THE OIL INDUSTRY

on BBC Home Service Basic

What is Oil?
Peter Sykes talks about the atoms and molecules which make up oil: the raw material which chemists change into drugs, weedkiller. nylon, paint, detergent, and many -other everyday commodities
Science and the Community series

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Peter Sykes

BBC Home Service Basic

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