Intestinal bacteria are generally tolerant of the emulsifying properties of bile, so it is therefore commonly used to differentiate these bacteria from other species.
This enables water to wet surfaces that are normally water-repellent, dissolving substances that are normally insoluble in water and emulsifying substances that do not normally mix with water.
All emulsified oil is treated in naval oil fuel depots and some 23,000 tons of usable oil have been recovered in the past twelve months.
Would they emulsify the detergents and the oil more quickly?
Will the fat globule be broken up, and will the fat be emulsified in the milk?
After a time the oil is emulsified, either by the action taken to disperse it or by normal wave action.
No stocks of emulsified oil have been disposed of.
Had the dispersant spraying not taken place the original spill would have emulsified into some 3,500 tonnes of mousse.
