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Mixtures 6: Empedocles and Unmixing

2 minutes Posted Mar 14, 2014 at 9:00 pm.
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Empedocles was an ancient Greek Philosopher and the first Western thinker to propose that everything in the world was a mixture of basic substances. He believed the four elements were Earth, Air, Fire and Water.
In this podcast we also look at physically un-mixing, or separating out mixtures into their basic substances.