When given two liquid without specific figures, we assume that these are 2 pure

substances. Some situations to be taken into consideration are: A and B are immiscible,
A can be partially dissolved in B.
The process of the experiment consists of two stages regarding to different
behavior and characteristic of the mixture:
+ Stage 1: A and B are mixed intensively. Observed by bare eyes, they are forced
to get along with each other to perform like a homogenous mixture. The act of intensively
mixing increases the mechanical energy, this results in the fact that the interfacial surface
is expanded, and the dispersion is more likely to occur. That explains why the two
substances seem to be diluted in each other.
+ Stage 2: The act of intensively mixing is halt, the mixture is left to sit still, the
energy is reduced, therefore, the surface area is shrunk. Later the behavior of the mixture
will change due to the difference in the characteristics of two liquids.
Situation 1: A and B are immiscible:
The reaction differs according to the relation between the specific weight ρA, ρB.,
surface tension s σA/air , σB/air and between these two figures.
If the specific weight of A is significantly greater than B, then the impact of
surface tension is negligible, the homogenous mixture will be separate into 2 layers in
which A is at the bottom of the vessel and B will be on top of A. The same happens to the
case specific weight of B is much greater than A, A will float upon B.
If the specific weights of both substances are approximately the same, the surface
tension will be the determinate. In stage 1, the mixture will contain globules of both
liquids distributed randomly forming a state called emulsion.
Furthermore, in order to have a deeper in understanding the behavior of emulsion,
we can take the unequal volume case into account. If VA >VB the resultant liquid will be
predominated by liquid A with lesser number of globules of the B liquid inside.  For the
case of VA < VB, the resultant liquid will be predominantly of liquid B containing lesser
number of globules of liquid A distributed randomly.
In stage 2, they begin to separate. The surface tension means how much force the
substance needs to resist external forces, including gravity and the relationship between
σA/air and σA/B, so as long as the surface tension can win over the gravity which keeps
pulling the substance down the bottom of the vessel, the substance will stay floating.
Therefore, if surface tension of A and B is much greater than the gravity force, then σA/B
will decide whether A or B is on top. If A has lower tension surface, A is more likely to
float while B sinks and vice versa.
 Once the surface tension of A can not outnumber the gravity, while B has large
surface tension, the globules of A will float inside the liquid B.
In case neither A nor B has larger tension surface compared with gravity, the
mixture will stay emulsion.
Situation 2: A and B are partially miscible
The mixture will behave similarly like the situation 1. Once all of the miscible
particles are diluted completely in stage 1, the mixture is left with immiscible ones and
continue to separate due to the relation between the properties of two substances.