ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Twister supersonic separator

Do you like to play with toys that spin around really fast? Well, imagine a big toy that spins so fast that it can separate things that are mixed together, like when you mix oil and water.

This big toy is called a twister supersonic separator. It looks like a big drum with fins inside that spin around very quickly. When you pour a mixture of liquids or gases into the drum, the fin's spinning motion causes the heavier components to be thrown outwards towards the walls of the drum, while the lighter components stay closer to the center.

This separation happens because of something called centrifugal force, which is like a pushing force that makes things move away from the center of a spinning object.

So when the mixture is spinning in the twister separator, the heavier parts move to the walls and the lighter parts gather in the middle. Then, the different parts can be drained out of the separator separately, so you can get pure components instead of a mixture.

And that's how a twister supersonic separator works, like a giant spinning toy that can separate things!