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3 Petroleum is optically active — that is, it is able to rotate the plane of polarized
light.
4 When crew members are ready to add the joint to the drill string as the hole
deepens, they add it from the mousehole.
5 The inorganic theory of the origin of petroleum makes it necessary for the oil and
gas to have migrated great distances to be found in the places they now occupy.
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