What is an oil and what makes it so different from water-based liquids?

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What makes an oil an oil? How is it different from any number of water suspensions? What do olive oil and, say, motor oil have in common that makes them both oils?

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Oil is a bunch of big, flammable molecules. The way water sticks together and the way oil does not stick together makes the two not mix together

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