of polymer beads to the oil and then mixing all the components for 10 minutes using a waring blender after blending the mixture was placed in a beaker for observation the mixture appeared homogeneous and initially resembled buttermilk after 5 minutes the beads began to settle after one hour all the beads settled to the bottom of the beaker and some of the oil began separating from the mixture and clear oil was present at the upper portion of the beaker after sitting overnight 10 hours later the upper portion of the beaker was clear oil and the bottom portion was the talc beads and oil pouring the clear oil off exposed that the beads had settled and packed tightly preventing the beads from pouring out of the beaker this sample could not be placed in a drum or tank for shipping because the beads would settle and plug the drum or tank a second sample was produced by adding talc to the oil and eliminating the beads initially it was discovered that the oil accepted approximately 40 by weight of talc after sitting overnight there was no separation between the talc and the oil at that point small additions of beads were added to the above mixture the addition of 2 by weight of beads to the talc oil mixture was encouraging the beads settled slightly but did not pack off as the concentration of the beads was increased in the mixture it was discovered that the beads remained suspended in the mixture fig2 depicts graphical representations of the talc concentration as percent by weight of oil versus the percent of beads suspended in oil fig2 illustrates that as the talc concentration as a percent.