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And those mixtures can naturally unmix over time, especially when temperatures fluctuate.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 2, 2021

“Still, it’s a sewer. Once you’ve put poop into water, you can’t unmix it.”

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2016

How the chocolate turned white, and the milk turned brown, and how sometimes you can’t unmix things no matter how much you might want to.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

If I had put within this bottle two pints, the one of wine and the other of water, thoroughly and exactly mingled together, how would you unmix them?

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

But, even having found out which was which, it took a little time and the use of a palm branch as a lever to unmix them.

From Baby Jane's Mission by Parnell, Reginald