As you can see in my experiment I have been doing lots of fun experimenting. How I really got this idea was when I was watching the news and an oil spill happened on the Gold Coast in Australia and then not long after that another one happened of the coast of Mexico and I thought to myself “Why not do my science fair on oil spills”?
I then read an article about how hair can be used to clean up an oil spill. The technique has been used in past disasters, such as an oil spill in San Francisco bay and in the Philippines in 2006, when prisoners shaved their heads and chests to donate hair to the cleanup effort. And in the first Iraq war in 1991, when retreating Iraqi soldiers released million tonnes of oil into the Persian Gulf, New Zealand sent booms filled with sheep's wool that could soak up 40 times their weight in oil to help with the clean-up. Human hair, however, proved more effective. Human hair grease acts as a spreading agent, to help the oil form a film on the surface. (Source: BBC World).
I hope that people will learn and enjoy from my science fair.
Finn J.
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