Introduction You may have heard people say, “Those two mix like oil and water,” when they’re describing two people who don’t get along. Maybe you’ve also noticed shiny oil floating on the surface of ...

(Nanowerk News) The reluctance of oil and water to mix together and stay that way is so well-known that it has become a cliché for describing any two things that do not go together well. Now, a new ...

You can mix oil and water. In its continuing quest to upend old verities and the sayings that spring from them, MIT, which recently announced it was working on technology to see around corners, is ...

Queen's University researchers have devised a "green chemistry" solution to one of the oil industry's biggest problems -- in a cost-effective way. Queen's University researchers have devised a "green ...

When the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, scientists knew the fallout would be far-reaching — both geographically and temporally. What investigators didn’t know ...

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It has been accepted by chemists for some time now that oil and water do not mix unless a detergent is added. However a scientist from the Australian National University in Canberra has found a new ...

It sounds almost too good to be true. Researchers at Queen's University in Canada have found an effective and environmentally friendly way to mix (and unmix) oil and water. This could help the oil ...

Scientists in Belgium have uncovered a new way to shake things up. Violent bouncing of a water droplet coated with oil causes the oil layer to move inside and fracture into many oily globs. In a paper ...

After tackling the phrase "comparing apples and oranges" a couple weeks ago, a co-worker suggested I take a look at "mixing like oil and water." O.K. Here goes: The phrase, as we know, is applied to ...