Oil dispersants are the most important chemicals used to treat oil spills at sea.

消油剂是处理海面溢油的一种重要材料。

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Certainly, they are used to some exposure to oil. We have no idea what the response would be to concentrated oil or the dispersants.

当然，这些蠕虫已经习惯暴露在不多的油污中，但我们不知道高浓度的油污或分散剂会对它们造成什么样的影响。

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BP thinks spraying dispersants into the oil plume where it leaves the riser may be 20 times more effective than waiting until it reaches the surface.

英石油考虑在提升管裂口附近油污滚滚的地方喷洒分散剂，这样做也许比在海面喷洒的效果好上至少20倍。

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Workers also used chemical dispersants to break up the oil.

VOA: special.2011.04.23

Louisiana officials say the risks come not just from oil, but from chemical dispersants being sprayed in the water.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

But could find none. "Over time oil does dissipate and can get broken down from bacteria and other organisms in the water, but still they are putting certain dispersants on the oil that makes it sink down to the bottom."

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

An operation was being mounted to contain and clean-up the spill, including skimmers, booms to contain the oil and aeroplanes to drop dispersants on it.

BBC: Tackling oil rig disaster 'number one priority' - Obama

If the capture vessels had to leave in the teeth of a hurricane, there would be a system for injecting dispersants into any oil that spilled out of the risers.

ECONOMIST: Fixing oil wells

And the oil that is -- has dispersants applied to it becomes emulsified and is pulled away from the surface and down in subsurface.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing on Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico