Scientists from Ufa have invented a sorbent that absorbs harmful substances during an oil spill
The Academy of Sciences of Bashkortostan has created an innovative reagent for cleaning spilled oil, which reduces the cost of cleaning water bodies and soil from oil products by one and a half times, Raikhana Kunakova, vice-president of the Academy and supervisor of the development, told Interfax. The sorbent, which was invented by scientists from Ufa, absorbs harmful substances contained in oil and destroys them, forming water and carbon monoxide.