As a direct consequence, the price for a barrel of the black goo has reached a level last seen before the panic spike in 2008.

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Leaks in a third of those tanks have leached a million gallons of toxic goo into the earth.

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In early 19th- century Pennsylvania, this goo was considered a depressor of property values because oil made it hard to grow crops and made farm animals sick.

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An instant hit, the Goo Goo Cluster was a longtime sponsor of the Grand Ole Opry, and while Standard Candy was sold twice in the past century, it remains a family-owned Nashville institution.

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Under his counsel, John Rzeznik, the singer for the Goo Goo Dolls, overcame a bad bout of writer's block during the making of the band's second album.

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Car buyers pay for labour, steel and paint, but the price sticker may not reflect the full cost of the noxious goo the car factory spills into a river.

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Over at the Harman Center for the Arts, meanwhile, there was a hipper vibe, with a big bash thrown by the Creative Coalition, an arts advocacy organization, featuring a full concert by the rock band the Goo Goo Dolls.

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IBM's design involved feeding small plastic wafers into a heated pump that melted them and pushed the goo through an extruder.

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Rossi sprinkles some Spillinex, the goo disappears and he rolls the white powder into a ball.

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Holt Lloyd can now put its eye-catching goo into Prestone's Bullet sponges and sell a whole lot more wax overseas.

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Given that Crassicorophium and barnacles are both crustaceans, albeit ones whose common ancestor lived 100m years ago, that suggests a single origin for the ability to make this type of goo.

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And even the black goo used by the ancient Romans to lubricate their chariot axels was a petroleum-based form of natural tar.

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He and Virgil pass by a pit of boiling lava, where demons are pushing screaming souls back into the flaming goo with pitchforks.

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To examine the relationship between the newly discovered goo and barnacle glue, Dr Vollrath's colleagues, Katrin Kronenberger and Cedric Dicko, took a look at the chemical composition of both.

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