Lyndon Taylor was born in 1964. Lyndon currently lives in Texarkana . Before that, he lived in El Paso , TX in 2012.
To view the video, please download the latest version of Flash Player. You may also view the transcript. Contaminants are substances that make water unfit for use. Some contaminants can be easily identified by assessing the taste, odor, and turbidity of the water. Most, however, cannot be easily detected and require testing to reveal whether or not water is contaminated.
However, many substances can't dissolve in water, for various reasons. A main reason is if they are not polar molecules, because then water cannot break apart the other compounds. For example, if the substance is a hydrocarbon, only the Hydrogen in water can interact with the hydrocarbons, not the oxygen.