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Webster 1913 Edition
Emulsion
E-mul′sion
,Noun.
Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as:
(a)
In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b)
In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process. Webster 1828 Edition
Emulsion
EMUL'SION
,Noun.
A soft liquid remedy of a color and consistence resembling milk; any milk-like mixture prepared by uniting oil and water, by means of another substance, saccharine or mucilaginous.
Definition 2024
Emulsion
emulsion
emulsion
English
Noun
emulsion (plural emulsions)
- a stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible
- Mayonnaise is an emulsion where egg is used to keep oil and water mixed.
- (chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquid
- the coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film
Translations
suspension of one liquid in another