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- If you have two different liquids (water and oil for example) mixed together and free floating without gravity, will they separate as they do here on Earth? If so, what property would determine the layering structure?
If you have two different liquids (water and oil for example) mixed together and free floating without gravity, will they separate as they do here on Earth? If so, what property would determine the layering structure? I suspect they would separate, and if left undisturbed probably form a spherical layered structure. But which liquid would be on the outside and which would be on the inside? In the presence of gravity, the lower density liquid would lie on top, but in the absence of gravity is it a function of surface tension? Or some other property(ies)?