Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100803:18:55:00
Time for today's "wordplay" where we take a term in the headlines that might be unfamiliar to a lot of people and explain it. today, we've got "mud," which doesn't mean what you think it means, at least in the context of the gulf oil disaster. your average mud is wet, soft earth, right? well, the mud everyone's focused on today is drilling mud, a manufactured fluid, usually a bentonite clay base. right now, it is the main ingredient in bp's static kill plan. v they've got more than 1 million gallons of this mud standing by. the plan is to start pumping it right down into that ruptured wellhead...
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