A containment pond holds tar sands tailings, consisting of a mixture of sand, water, and toxic chemicals that remain after the unrefined oil products have been extracted.

图为污水池里的油砂残渣，其中混有沙子、污水以及萃取未精炼的石油产品后所残留的有毒化学物质。

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Under UV light, tar from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill lights up orange-yellow on the beaches of Gulf Islands National Seashore (picture) while clean sand glows purple in a long-exposure picture.

长曝光拍摄的图片中，大片的油污在紫外线下发出橙黄色的光，干净的沙子为紫色。这是海湾岛国家海滨沙滩上的情景。

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Tar sand oil was extracted from the Xinjiang tar sands and some kinds of asphalt products with special uses and higher value were prepared from the said oil.

以新疆小西沟、风城两种油砂为原料，利用甲苯抽提制取的油砂稠油研制开发高价值的特种沥青产品。

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Unable to stop Canadian oil drilling and tar sand extraction programs, environmental groups are now trying to block any pipeline that is proposed out of the oil producing regions.

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Bitumen, otherwise known as tar sand, is oil-soaked dirt that needs to be cooked to extract the oil.

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It issued a press release in January trumpeting new technology that cheaply upgrades the kind of heavy oil found in Venezuela and mined out of Canada's tar sands with rapid applications of heat using sand as the heat carrier.

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