To get the oil, producers fracture, or «frack,» the earth below with a high -
pressure liquid mixture to untap oil and gas from shale rock.
Not exact matches
But once conditions surpass a certain threshold of
pressures and temperatures, the
liquid helium is expected to fall out of the dissolved
mixture.
Ammonia seems plausible:
mixtures with water can be
liquid at around -100 °C at a
pressure of 1 atmosphere.
Vapor blankets could not develop at the high supercritical
pressures under the earth's surface, because SCW is always a
mixture of microscopic
liquid droplets floating in a very dense vapor.
Conventional oil is a
mixture of mainly pentanes and hydrocarbons recoverable through an oil well from an underground reservoir and is a
liquid at atmospheric
pressure and temperature.