Question

you are provided with a mixture of petroleum and water can you suggest a method to separate the two?

Answer 1

The mixture of petroleum and water does not mix.So separating funnel is the method used here.

Answer 2

Wait ten minutes while the oil separates from the water. Then freeze the container for three hours at -15 centigrade. Petroleum is lighter than water and freezes at about -48 centigrade. Once the water freezes, you can simply pour the oil into another container.

The more dangerous, fun alternative is to simply burn away the oil. Raw petroleum burns at about 800 degrees centigrade, and creates a huge toxic cloud of carbon that floats off into the atmosphere permanently.

Those oil fires Saddam Hussein’s retreating army set in Kuwait in 1991? The pollution they created is still in the air today. You and I are still breathing particulates of it, nearly 30 years later. Also, in the past thirty years asthma cases around the world have nearly doubled. Coincidence? Possibly.

Oil is probably the most dangerous byproduct nature ever created. Most of it came from trees that evolved before fungus and other rotting life-forms came about to recycle them.


Plants would just sit there for maybe centuries until the carbon fossilized them. The photo shows an intact fossil of a fern from maybe 200 million years ago that got buried and became coal.

Oil is similar to coal, containing most of the same chemical ingredients, but the one stays liquid. (Yes, there’s a chemistry argument about how I’m wrong and the two are technically unrelated, but I don’t think a ninety-two page paper is correct in this forum.) Fossil fuels come from biology, and that’s all that matters.

Biology is less dense than Water, so that’s why it floats.

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