Although bad weather, like that of the May Day weekend, keeps boats and booms at bay, it also ACTS as a dispersant itself, mixing the oil into the water.

尽管，就像国际劳动节周末的天气那样，糟糕的天气情况使船只和水栅被滞留在海湾内，但它本身也有分散剂的作用，能将浮油沉入水中。

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Chris Reddy, a Marine chemist, regretted that scientists had not been able to get more samples of the deep-sea dispersant-oil mixture.

令海洋化学家克里斯·雷迪懊恼的是，科学家没有能够取到更多深海分散剂与石油的混合物样品。

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Seafood samples are also chemically analyzed for hydrocarbons and the dispersant BP sprayed on the oil slick.

海产品样本还进行了化学成分分析，目的就是样本中是否含有英国石油公司在石油泄漏海域喷洒的碳氢化合物及石油分解剂。

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Consequently, their eggs and larvae are presumably being bathed in a toxic soup of oil and dispersant.

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The big question is which poses a greater environmental risk: oil washing ashore, or a mixture of oil and dispersant at sea.

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"The dispersant is moving the oil down out of the surface and into the deeper waters, where it can affect phytoplankton and other marine life, " said John Paul, a marine microbiologist at the University of South Florida.

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