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Synthetic substance added to oil may be responsible for seabird deaths
Pollution expert says polyisobutene is the sticky substance found on hundreds of seabirds after examining washed-up guillemot A sticky substance that has killed hundreds of seabirds could be a polymer often used to improve the performance of lubricating oil, it has emerged. Professor Steve Rowland, an expert in pollution from Plymouth University,…
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