Thursday, January 7, 2010

How do plants grow in vegetable oil?

if you find the answer, can you give me the website it came from? thanksHow do plants grow in vegetable oil?
can they?How do plants grow in vegetable oil?
The oil would suffocate them. They don't.
Vegetable fats and oils are substances derived from plants that are composed of triglycerides. Nominally, oils are liquid at room temperature, and fats are solid; a dense brittle fat is called a wax. Although many different parts of plants may yield oil, [1] in actual commercial practice oil is extracted primarily from the seeds of oilseed plants.





The temperature-based distinction between oils and fats is imprecise, since the temperatures of rooms vary, and typically any one substance has a melting range instead of a single melting point.





Triglyceride vegetable fats and oils include not only edible, but also inedible vegetable fats and oils such as linseed oil, tung oil, and castor oil, used in lubricants, paints, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and other industrial purposes. Although thought of as esters of glycerin and a varying blend of fatty acids, in fact these oils contain free fatty acids and diglycerides as well





Use vegetable oil as a way to reduce water evaporation from soil by slowing the flow of underground water to the soil surface





The use of vegetable oil 鈥?either straight vegetable oil (that's ';SVO'; to the self-righteous, eco-cognescenti) from the grocer's shelf, or waste vegetable oil (';WVO';) obtained from local restaurants for bupkes 鈥?was pioneered by environmentalists in the ';greasecar'; or ';veggiecar'; movement.


oils derived from soybeans, corn, and other vegetables hold promise as a cleaner and renewable alternative to the finite resource sucked up from the ground.


';It is time for us to start getting sane about how we produce energy and how we use energy,'; said Charris Ford, an alternative fuels advocate in Telluride, Colorado who drives a modified diesel truck fueled by used vegetable oil that he collects from local restaurants.

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