how does motor oil affect the soil?
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It kills the microorganisms.  It also tends to remove air from the soil making it harder for larger organism (like insect grubs and earthworms) to breathe.\nIn addition it upsets the natural chemistry or the soil.
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Loads of stuff. Oil is broken down in to many different substances, and stuff is made from them. Plastic, polyester, polythene, nylon etc. They use a bi-product to make roads. Plus lubricants, vaseline, industrial grease. I think you can get alcohols from it, ethanol, methanol etc. Different fuels come from it, diesel, aviation fuel, jet fuel, normal fuel. You'd be surprised.\nUuuh, and all the stuff he said up there too.
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Soil is produced from the erosion of rocks. All the soil in Washington was produced by eorosion. So erosion helps people by enabling them to grow food to eat.
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Basically, an earthworm "burrows into and helps aerate soil."\n\nThese links might be able to help you with your question.
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uses more oil quicker. i stuck on the question please explain more
1156123
The wheels in contact with the ground are the only source of force to change your motion from straight-line.  On flat ground, only the motorcycle can lean into the turn.
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Due to their non-polarity, oils do not easily adhere to other substances. This makes them useful as lubricants for various engineering purposes. Suitable oils are often found in the mineral spectrum, as biological oils degrade quickly in most environmental conditions.
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Crude oil is composed of a mix of molecules composed of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen atoms in many different forms. These can range from simple compounds like methane (CH4) or ethane (C2H6) to long complicated molecules such as paraffins like C8H18, also known as octane that is used to rate motor fuels. \n\nThe initial source of the crude oil is the accumulation of the dead bodies of phytoplankton and zooplankton which are microscopic plants and animals that live in the sea and fresh water lakes. Adding to this organic matter that accumulates on the sea floor is the material that is carried into the ocean by rivers, such as pollen, spores, and plant material. To be preserved, all of this organic matter must fall into a zone of the water that is low in oxygen, otherwise it will decay rather than be preserved. Mud and silt coming from rivers will often bury this material before it can be consumed by living organisms. Near the mouths of rivers there are often rapid rates of deposition of mud and silt that will bury organic material, and over time it may be buried by several miles of sediment. For example, the Mississippi River Delta, which is a prolific oil producing area, has deposited sediments several miles thick over the last 66 million years. \n\nAs these deposits of organic matter are buried deeper and deeper they begin to warm from the heat of the earth's interior. When they reach a temperature of about 140 degrees F, they begin to undergo "catagenesis" which is a molecular change that makes oil. If they reach a temperature of about 250 degree F, they will begin to form more natural gas than oil. If they get too hot it is possible to change them to graphite, and no oil or gas will be produced. \n\nIn other types of depositional environments the plants and animals that become oil also form the rock. Carbonate mudstone (which is simply a type of limestone) of the Hanifa Formation in the Middle East formed much of the oil in Saudi Arabia. These carbonate mudstones  are composed of huge accumulations of lime muds made from the breakdown of marine algaes and other organisms. These deposits of the remains of marine organisms also must undergo burial and and heating by the deep earth to generate oil and gas. \n\nSo when you burn oil, you are really burning solar energy that was stored by plants and animals thousands or millions of years ago and buried in the earth. \n\nEvery time I answer this question someone comes along and points out that there may be oil that is not from living organisms. Thomas Gold, a respected physicist at Cornell proposed that oil may be abiotic; that is just another type of deposit of the earth. This may in fact be possible, but if it is, it is likely to be a very minor source of the oil on Earth. The reasons are complicated, but the fact that the rocks where Gold predicted this abiotic oil should be found do not contain oil is pretty conclusive proof that this type of oil is not significant, if it exists at all. \n\nHere is my previous answer to this question:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AqkzP9amgCudYabOz20w2YIjzKIX?qid=1006022109950
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you could do something like, the effects of pollutants on soil, then to show your experiment try growing plants in different types of soil, have one with normal soil, your control, then others with different pollutants, oil, chemicals, garbage\nHopefully this could help
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Oil wells are typically much deeper than groundwater, so I would not expect most wells to fill with groundwater (and the original oil would float if they were in contact).\n\nIf the oil field was in direct contact with ocean water, the oil would have flowed out and been replaced with water already.\n\nWhat is likely to happen is that the ground will sink as the liquid is removed, just like most ground "subsides" when water is pumped out of it.
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I would recommend you just put a trickle charger on the battery, change all the fluids, put some stabilizer in the gas, and leave it stored until you need it, by what your doing, you are causing more harm then good, if the oil doesn't get up to temp, it slowly collects moisture (not good) and not only that, since the oil doesn't get up to temp, the engine gets more wear.
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Try these links:\n\nhttp://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/wrb/wrbmaps/htm/soilres.htm\n\nhttp://soils.usda.gov/use/worldsoils/mapindex/
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Soil degradation is a major problem in the world, especially in poor countries. I know of none that has successfully reversed it (although there might be some). Below is a good UN report on soil degradation.\n\nSoil degradation come mostly from soil erosion, bad farming practices, and overuse of inorganic fertilizers.  \n\nBelow is a reference to switchgrass. Switchgrass used to grown through the plains of North America. Through the ages, it added organic matter onto the top soil. That is why North America had some of the richest top soil in the world. Switchgrass has been a focus of scientific, economic, and environmental interest lately because it can also be the source of "biomass". With the petroleum at current price levels, ethanol produced through switchgrass is very attractive. Wouldn't it be nice if we can get our government to discourage the use of petroleum (through a gas tax), and allowing switchgrass production to make the U.S. and Canada become more energy independent. Meanwhile, sequestering carbon onto the top soil, making it richer, while producing a cleaner fuel for automobiles and homes.
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oil forms when marine microorganisms (plankton) die and accumulate.  given the right amount of time (millions to tens of millions of years) and temperature (100-200C), they mature and become trapped below ground in the oil source rock.  this has nothing to do with the Earth moving off its axis.  all it means is that we know where to look for oil and we know that we're using it up far faster than it can form.
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Does grasscutter = lawnmower?\n\nI didn't know lawnmowers had bile?!?!  Or are you talking about the engine oil????
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Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Stop right there!\n\nPetroleum is found in the crust of the earth. As a matter of fact, it is found in porous permeable rock. That simply means it is found in rock that has tiny interconnected holes.\n\nThe oil is held in place by water beneath & a cap rock above. The oil sits on the water b/c it is less dense. The cap rock keeps it from escaping b/c it is impermeable & will not allow the oil through.\n\nEven though the crust is relatively thin, the oil is no where near the next layer, the mantle. If it were, it would be too hot & the oil would become part of the mantle melt.\n\nThe mantle is "plastic" being neither liquid or solid due to the immense pressure there. The crust "floats" atop the mantle b/c it is less dense.\n\nBottom line... petroleum does NOT lubricate anything in the earth & most certainly does not lub up the mantle/crust.\n\nAlso, while there is convection in the mantle, it does not "spin" around in the manner in which you speak.\n\nMy job is done here. :)
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Google "soil contamination" or clink the link below.