James Cook (1728-1779) Famous For: Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. An English captain who circumnavigated around the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. He made contact with the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, New Zealand, and around the Indian Ocean back to the Atlantic. He died while serving the Crown in Hawaii.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection [DEP] relies on laboratory tests called EPH [Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons] and VPH [Volatile Petroleum Hydrocarbons] to test for the presence of gasoline or fuel oil in drinking water.
Liquid hydrocarbons- commonly known as oil, or crude oil, to distinguish it from refined hydrocarbon products. Plastic hydrocarbons- asphalt. Solid hydrocarbons- coal and kerogen- (kerogen strictly defined is dessimenated organic matter in sediments that is insoluble in normal petroleum solvents. Gas hydrates- Solids composed of water molecules surrounding gas molecules, usually methane, but also H2S, CO2, and other less common gases.