The water and oil do not mix, they are illustrated as immiscible. The molecules of water are polar, that is, they exhibit a small positive charge at one terminal and a small negative charge at the other terminal, and they attach with each other. The molecules of oil are non-polar, and they possess no charge. Due to this, the molecules of oil are more fascinated with each other than to the molecules of water, and the molecules of water are more fascinated towards each other than to the molecules of oil.
In chemistry, there is a common note that says, "Like dissolves like".
This pertains to the concept that polar substances can dissolve only other polar substances. Also, nonpolar substances are also only able to dissolve nonpolar substances.
Polarity of the substance depends primarily on the type of bond and the difference in electronegativity.
Water is a polar substance while vegetable oil is not. From the concept presented above, it may be concluded that water will not be able to dissolve the vegetable oil and the assumption is logical.
Water is the only common substance that when you freeze it, it's volume INCREASES.
When the pipe originally held the "all full" volume and the the water expanded, it put a tremendous amount of pressure on the pipe. Enough pressure and the pipe would burst.
