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)

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.
(photography) The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.

Derived terms

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
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

Finnish

Noun

emulsion

Genitive singular form of emulsio.

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