Comments on: Reading between the lines. http://yolaleah.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/reading-through-the-lines/ Life and Times in a Librarian's World Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:27:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Gen http://yolaleah.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/reading-through-the-lines/#comment-20 Gen Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:27:06 +0000 http://yolaleah.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/reading-through-the-lines/#comment-20 About that ammonia thing... Perhaps an occasional *tiny* amount of ammonia to vastly greater parts of water will cause it to 'naturally' break down*... but if you keep putting more and more amounts of ammonia in a body of water, you're continually changing the chemical make up of the liquid... and guess what, ammonia ain't gonna break down faster for it... it's eventually going to slow to a build up. *In addition, I don't know so much about 'breaking down' as becoming diluted... Chem 101, Dennis. About that ammonia thing…

Perhaps an occasional *tiny* amount of ammonia to vastly greater parts of water will cause it to ‘naturally’ break down*… but if you keep putting more and more amounts of ammonia in a body of water, you’re continually changing the chemical make up of the liquid… and guess what, ammonia ain’t gonna break down faster for it… it’s eventually going to slow to a build up.

*In addition, I don’t know so much about ‘breaking down’ as becoming diluted…

Chem 101, Dennis.

]]> By: yolaleah http://yolaleah.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/reading-through-the-lines/#comment-19 yolaleah Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:31:43 +0000 http://yolaleah.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/reading-through-the-lines/#comment-19 Just a bit of an edit: My father emailed this correction to me: "Just a note so you can correct a part of your blog, BP's refinery doesn't just supply British Petrol stations. All of our gas pretty much comes from just a few sources, there's only about 150 refineries in the US and most, if not all, of our products come from them. My guess is this refinery supplies gas and oil products to many many states through distribution who sell to all different kinds of gas stations". So! Scratch that whole 10 cents per gallon thing. And I still think this just proves my point that the dumping will not somehow alter gas prices. Just a bit of an edit: My father emailed this correction to me: “Just a note so you can correct a part of your blog, BP’s refinery doesn’t just supply British Petrol stations. All of our gas pretty much comes from just a few sources, there’s only about 150 refineries in the US and most, if not all, of our products come from them. My guess is this refinery supplies gas and oil products to many many states through distribution who sell to all different kinds of gas stations”.

So! Scratch that whole 10 cents per gallon thing. And I still think this just proves my point that the dumping will not somehow alter gas prices.

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