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How your split ends can help clean oil spills

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An oil spill occurs in a pristine area. What are the options for cleanup? What would work most successfully to absorb the oil that now coats the surface of the water? The answer is less high tech than you might think. Vox explains. 

Hair is great at cleaning up oil due to the fact it is HYDROPHOBIC and BIOSORBENT. What do these two capitalized words mean?

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