Can water float on oil?

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4609-4613

  Phan, Chi M ^a   Allen, Benjamin ^a   Peters, Luke B ^a   Le, Thu N ^a   Tade, Moses O ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUILIBRATION CONDITIONS; FLOATABILITY; OIL DENSITY; OIL WASTES; OIL/WATER; WATER DROPLETS; YOUNG LAPLACE EQUATION;

CONTACT ANGLE; LAPLACE EQUATION;

DROPS;

EID: 84858178551     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la204820a     Document Type: Article

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