Sheens

It can also be colored to have sheens of any shade of the rainbow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Last summer, fears of contamination from the Gulf Coast oil spill sent St. Joe's stock price plunging 40% as investors worried that oil sheens and tar balls would reach the pristine beaches near St. Joe's real-estate holdings. ❋ Robbie Whelan (2011)

The group walked wearily across the Brooklyn Bridge, the skyline glittering in the pre-dawn darkness and illuminating the riders' sheens of sweat. ❋ Sophia Hollander (2011)

The golden strain of Polynesia betrayed itself in the sun-gilt of his fair skin and cast up golden sheens and lights through the glimmering blue of his eyes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

BP denies the well is leaking in any way or that it is responsible for the current sheens of oil floating along the surface. ❋ Rocky Kistner (2011)

Not long after the blowout, rainbow-colored sheens appeared in Line Creek, she said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They are not investing any sheens in the vicinity of the BP well, Paul Barnard, Operations Controller for the New Orleans sector of the Coast Guard, told the AP on Thursday. ❋ Unknown (2011)

* Radar lenses are enhanced with a hydrophobic/oleophobic coating that prevents water from leaving sheens that can obstruct vision. ❋ Hilary Moss (2010)

Instead it seems to be made up mostly of oil sheens that float along in long rivers, moving with the waves like an oily ghost that refuses to leave its haunted home. ❋ Rocky Kistner (2011)

Kemps-Ridley and other sea turtle species are again swimming in plumes of oil and coming to the surface to take the air from gaseous sheens floating on water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To date, glossy sheens and goopy tar balls have surfaced in parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and northwest Florida. ❋ Andrea Sachs (2010)

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a health and justice organization in New Orleans, is asking residents of the Gulf Coast to report fisherman out of work, endangered wildlife, oil on shore, oil sheens, health impacts and other problems using a new tool known as the Oil Spill Crisis Map. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Evaluate the presence of subsurface oil in addition to surface sheens ❋ Unknown (2010)

There was a renewed sense of urgency as dime - to golfball-sized balls of tar began washing up on Dauphin Island, three miles off the Alabama mainland at the mouth of Mobile Bay and much farther east than the thin, rainbow sheens that had so far arrived sporadically in the Louisiana marshes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Only sheens have reached some coastal waters in the southeastern U.S. BP Chief Executive ❋ Unknown (2010)

As we cruised along we came upon sheens of oil, patches of red, crusty orange globs of crude mixed with dispersants that looked like spongy orange cake batter floating in the saltwater. ❋ Rocky Kistner (2010)

Images of tar balls on beaches and oil sheens looming offshore are spooking tourists, leading many to forgo vacations along the Gulf of Mexico. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Operators are also supposed to report any oil sheens they encounter. ❋ Unknown (2010)