OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dharani is like totally glad that she just posted in on time that she feels like SRPing...
Soil pollution is when the pollutants in soil are above a certain level causing the soil to lose one or more of its functions. Soil pollution may also be thought of as the presence of manmade chemicals or any other modifications in the natural environment. The most common chemicals causing soil pollution are: petroleum hydrocarbons, pesticides, lead used in cars and house paint and other heavy metals. The occurrence of this manifestation is linked with industrialisation and the intensity of chemical usage. Soil pollution is widespread in all areas and is often the outcome of years of planned or unintentional emission of pollutants.
NOW! how does THAT sound for a 1st paragraph?
(WOW)
So, what is porosity?
The percentage of pore volume or void space, or that volume within rock that can contain fluids.
http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=porosity
(i will reference this properly when i figure out how to)

Climate graph

so here's my climate graph...

hehe...yeah i know it kinda looks like my graph has been trampled on by a herd of elephants but it wasn't my fault i made it in the holidays... ummmm... yeh...enjoy?

Method...

1. Place a filter on a cup(making sure it won't fall off)

2. Put 250 mg of sand in the filter

3. Measure out 250 mL of oil in the measuring cup

4. Pour the oil onto the sand and let the oil be filtered for 60 seconds

5. Remove the filter from the cup after 60 seconds of filteration

6. Record the amount of oil in the cup on a table

7. Subtract this amount from 250 to find out how much of the oil is actually absorbed by the sand

8. Record this number on the table as well

9. Repeat steps 1 to 8 with oil and clay instead of sand

10. After one week, repeat steps 1 to 9 but instead of oil use petrol

11. After another week, repeat steps 1 to 9 but instead of oil use engine coolant

INTRODUCTION OF MY EXPERIMENT

So this experiment idea was inspired by this girl in another country, one day she found that the soil around a creek was polluted by saturated oil. If the oil had travelled downstream, the whole river would have been polluted.

Now, the experiment is now to help demonstrate us see which soil is the most absorbant and whether the more viscous pollutant will be more absorbant.

I think the soil type with more pososity will have more space for the pollutant to fill.