Infographic of the Day: The Physics of Oil Spills

How the ocean absorbs and spreads the oil streaming into it.

The oil streaming into the Gulf isn't just pouring from the ocean floor and causing havoc--along the way, it's triggering myriad chemical interactions.

You hear some of these interactions mentioned in news reports--things such bio-degradation and oxidation. But they've never been explained as elegantly as in these infographics by MSNBC.

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The design, obviously, is a bit perfunctory. But the content is superb, seeking to answer what...