Note 4: An emulsion is termed an oil/water (o/w) emulsion if the. dispersed phase is an organic material and the continuous phase is. water or an aqueous solution and is termed water/oil (w/o) if the dispersed. phase is water or an aqueous solution and the continuous phase is an. organic liquid (an oil).
We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land.. Poor agricultural practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to wheat.
The Dust Bowl, also known as âthe Dirty Thirties,â lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lasted much longer. Severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern Great Plains in 1930. Massive dust storms began in 1931.