emulsion
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6.8
- noun
- /ɪˈmʌlʃən/
- Specialized
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emulsión
- The recipe calls for an emulsion that combines lemon juice with olive oil for the salad dressing.
- emulsion stability
- emulsion droplets
- oil emulsion
And many times in order to produce emulsions, you need surfactants.
- And many times in order to produce emulsions, you need surfactants.
- It's sort of I would say it's like an oil and water emulsion, very hydrating to the skin.
- And this is not only true in biology for a long time, there's a field called emulsion polymerization.
- And then once you've done that, you can just get some water, add the water to it and it becomes like a really soft Milky emulsion.
- The perfect emulsion of sugar, fat and salt to hit those neurotransmitters in the brain to make you want to come back for more.
Examples
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Take the round sheet of tin, dip it in soap emulsion, then place it centrally in the press.
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Many emulsion-based foods share these same non-Newtonian properties and offer similar challenges to modeling.
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This is the emulsion, but they also have a cream for more of a normal to dry skin.
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Though I will say that this emulsion does look slightly split.
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In fact, I can make an emulsion if I'm careful.
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The perfect emulsion of sugar, fat and salt to hit those neurotransmitters in the brain to make you want to come back for more.
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This is our sea urchin, with an emulsion of sea weed.
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The chef added a mango emulsion.
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If shaken too vigorously during the washing process, the water will mix with the soaps and create an emulsion.
Academic text (2010) -
WAITER: Chef Slowik would like to welcome you with a raw local oyster in a mignonette emulsion, with lemon caviar and an oyster leaf.
Synonyms
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3.5
A substance made of two or more different parts not chemically joined and not in fixed amounts
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7.7
A mixture with tiny particles spread through another substance, not dissolved, like milk and gel
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6.4
A mix where tiny bits spread through a liquid or gas
Compounds
- Specialized
A light-sensitive coating on film or paper that records images when exposed to light
How Fine
Surface Forms
Morphology
emulsion = emulsify (semi-transparent) = emuls + ion
The noun is a regular nominalization of 'emulsify' with '-ion', and the general sense 'a dispersed mixture' is accessible, but the root 'emuls-' itself is not a common standalone word.
Etymology
Emulsion comes from the Latin root emulgere, meaning 'to milk'. A helpful image is milk itself: tiny fat droplets spread through water to make a 'milky' mix. So an emulsion is a mixture where one liquid has tiny droplets spread through another.