Familiar examples are the miscibility of alcohol and water and the immiscibility of oil and water, which can be explained by intermolecular interactions. |
Next, note that unsaturated lipids are not necessary for micron-scale immiscibility in bilayer membranes. |
The non-polar groups prefer to interact with each other, and exclude water from these regions, leading to immiscibility. |
Over 10,000 means that we could switch from letter press to offset lithography, a process which depends on the immiscibility of greasy ink and water on a lithographic plate. |