emulsion

See also: émulsion, emulsión, and Emulsion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French émulsion, from New Latin ēmulsiō, ēmulsiōnis, based on Latin ēmulgeō (“I milk out, extract”).

Noun

emulsion (plural emulsions)

1. 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.

2. (chemistry) A colloid in which both phases are liquid.
3. (photography) The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.

Derived terms

• emulsify
• solid emulsion

Related terms

• emulsifier

Translations

suspension of one liquid in another

• Bulgarian: емулсия (bg) f (emulsija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳浊液 (zh) (rǔ zhuó yè)

• Crimean Tatar: emulsiya
• Czech: emulze f
• Danish: emulsion (da) c
• Dutch: emulsie (nl) f
• Finnish: emulsio (fi)
• French: émulsion (fr) f
• German: Emulsion (de) f
• Greek: γαλάκτωμα (el) n (galáktoma)
• Icelandic: þeyta f

• Irish: eibleacht f
• Italian: emulsione (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: emulsjon m

  Nynorsk: emulsjon m

• Portuguese: emulsão f
• Romanian: emulsie (ro) f
• Russian: эму́льсия (ru) f (emúlʹsija)
• Spanish: emulsión (es) f
• Tagalog: lapunaw

coating of photosensitive layer on a photographic film

• Hungarian: emulzió (hu)

Further reading

• emulsion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• moulines

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Finnish

Noun

emulsion

1. Genitive singular form of emulsio.