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In Tuapse, black, oil-like drops have fallen from the sky in recent weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Chemical recycling typically uses heat or chemical solvents to break down plastics into liquid and gas to produce an oil-like mixture or basic chemicals.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
First, they made individual polymers, linking a hydrophobic, or oil-like portion, to a hydrophilic, or waterlike strand.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 29, 2022
A wreck, a concentrated waste patch and an oil-like slick had been spotted near the crash site, Latvian search and rescue head Peteris Subbota told Latvian television, adding that no passengers had been found.
From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2022
There was not so much as a ripple on the ocean's smooth, oil-like surface.
From By Right of Conquest A Novel by Arthur Hornblow
