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Bioremediation exploits naturally occurring microbes to clean up chemical spills, such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that added roughly 800 million liters of hydrocarbons to the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 g. True/False

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Answer: True

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Bioremidiation can be defined as the method by which the microbes are used in such a way that it helps in cleaning of the environment.

The oil spills can be cleaned by using the bacteria in order to clean the environment. The U.S government estimated that the the spill added approximately 800 million liters of hydrocarbon to the Gulf of Mexico by the useful bacteria.

One quarter of that has been burned captured according to the U.S government estimates.

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