Does oil sink or float in gasoline?

Answer 1

Water sinks in gasoline. Whatever size bottle you want to think about, it's heavier when it's

full of water, and lighter when it's full of gasoline.

Small aircraft, with their fuel tanks in their wings, used to have small bleeder valves in the

underside of the wing, where water was drained from the tank before flight. It was on the

bottom, because any water that condenses in the tank, or gets in there by any means, always

sinks in the gasoline and winds up at the bottom of the tank.

Answer 2

Assuming you mean ethanol?

Ethanol has a density of 0.789 g/cm3.

Gasoline has a density ranging from 0.71 g/cm3 to 0.77 g/cm3.

Because ethanol has a higher density than gasonline it will sink to the bottom.

Answer 3

Normally, alcohol will mix with gasoline. Before companies added alcohol to gasoline, people had a problem with water in the gasoline. Water would accumulate in the bottom of gas tanks. It would cause gas tanks to rust out. Alcohol mixes with both water and gasoline. As a result water now mixes with the alcohol mixed with the gasoline. Gas tanks no longer rust out.

Answer 4

Oil sinks in gasoline because it is less dense than gasoline. This causes the oil to settle at the bottom of the container while the gasoline floats on top.

Answer 5

it will mix up with it. so it is not going to float or not going to sink.