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Liquid-in-liquid suspension
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emulsion
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Word definitions for emulsion in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from French émulsion (16c.), from Modern Latin emulsionem (nominative emulsio ), noun of action from past participle stem of emulgere "to milk out," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex- ) + mulgere "to milk" (see milk (n.)). Milk is a classic ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE matt ▪ Walls: Risa C3-10 matt vinyl emulsion . ▪ Background painted with 3030 B70G, Collector, matt emulsion from the Definitions range by Dulux, £15.49/2.5 litres. ▪ A light green is best and matt emulsion or undercoat, ...
Usage examples of emulsion.
To 4 litres of water he adds 2 tablespoons of fish emulsion, 2 tablespoons of powdered kelp and 2 tablespoons of soap.
Mix 2 tablespoons of fish emulsion in 4 litres of water and spray it on the plants.
He cleansed himself, excising an emulsion of liquor and dirt and semen.
To be any creature trapped in the emulsion of some terrible existence.
Leather-bound books in tidy rows lined two of the walls, with windows, doors, portraits and fireplace leaving small surrounds of pale green emulsion on the others.
Just before they left the paint department she darted back and bought two huge cans of white emulsion, and chose a sponge.
Now it was as though some vandal had hurled cheap emulsion at the canvas: the arterial red leaves of a low-lying maple branch streaked violently from one bank to another, and on the far side, little poplar leaves the exact color of twenty-four carat gold lay strewn over the boulders like pirate treasure.
A photographer gave me a lot of spoiled plates, and I boiled off the emulsion, and took the specimens I framed from my stuff.
This usually means breaking it open, but what I figured out was that if I inject it with magnetised iron filings in a lecithin emulsion, then stick it in a rotating magnetic field, I can churn it up quite effectively.
LUETIN for an emulsion or extract of pure culture of Treponema pallidum, which is designed to be employed for obtaining in suitable cases, a specific cutaneous reaction that may become a valuable diagnostic sign in certain stages or forms of syphilitic infection.
The pancreatic fluid makes an emulsion of the fat contained in our food, but just how the fatty particles get into the villi we must leave Brucke and Kolliker to settle if they can.
Only by experiments upon human beings, it is said, could the value of either the tuberculin test or the Noguchi emulsion be definitely determined.
You have a mass of counters and magnets downstream of the emulsion, and you measure the photons with a twenty-ton lead-glass detector array, and the results are stored on laser discs and analyzed by the data-acquisition software.
The rooms were mostly emulsioned a delicate shade of mauve, the doors and woodwork painted a bright yellow-sun colour.
Both the sideboard and bookcase were made from a light wood veneer, and the walls were emulsioned off-white.