Dispersant's destroy surface tension and break the oil up into smaller droplets, allowing the sun, oxygen, and oil eating microcritters to break it down faster.
Hey no big deal but there is no apostrophe in “dispersants”.
Well that’s good if that’s the case. It seemed with the hot summer temps down there that this would be no Exxon Valdez.
There has been a lot of misinformation even here on FR about this issue.