once you remove any gasses dissolved in the water.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993408
Weird.
Wow, after something like this, it makes you wonder. Maybe the Earth is hollow after all. 
I remember reading that you could mix oil and water with ultrasonic agitation. That was about forty years ago. Is this related somehow?
I don’t think so CalMeacham. It seems no agitation of any kind is required, they actually spontaneously mix when put together.
That said, the article does say they haven’t reproduced the experiment yet. I hope they means they haven’t tried yet, and not that they’ve tried and failed. I hate when my thread titles become lies…
Err you mix oil and water all the time in immunology.
It’s called… Freunds Complete Adjuent (or something like that – hot DAMN how is that for pulling terms from a different field out of your ass w/o google after 4 years of not thinking about it).
Basically you use it to generate antibodies in … vivo … in something like a mouse.
You take the peptide you want antibodies against, mix it with some oil solution and water. Generally the easiest way to do it is to take two disposable syringes and screw em together then inject the mixture from syringe to syringe.
After about 30 hand cramping min later you have the mixture you need to inject into the mouse’s abdominal cavity. Just make sure you don’t puncture the intestine, if you do you get a MUCH stronger immune responce than you intended (aka mouse dies)
Err you mix oil and water all the time in immunology.
It’s called… Freunds Complete Adjuent (or something like that – hot DAMN how is that for pulling terms from a different field out of your ass w/o google after 4 years of not thinking about it).
Basically you use it to generate antibodies in … vivo … in something like a mouse.
You take the peptide you want antibodies against, mix it with some oil solution and water. Generally the easiest way to do it is to take two disposable syringes and screw em together then inject the mixture from syringe to syringe.
After about 30 hand cramping min later you have the mixture you need to inject into the mouse’s abdominal cavity. Just make sure you don’t puncture the intestine, if you do you get a MUCH stronger immune responce than you intended (aka mouse dies)
CRorex, nobody’s saying you couldn’t do it before with agitation, which is what you’re doing with the syringes. With the new method they mix spontaneously and stay mixed. With the syringe method, they’d still separate after a while, wouldn’t they?
Isn’t the adjunt (or however that’s spelled) an emulsifier? We’ve known for years that you can use emulsifiers to mix them. Heck, that’s the definition of an emulsifier.
Wow, could even be flat too then, huh.:dubious:
Oil and water mix into a mayo of sorts when the head gasket blows.