Emulsion vs. Solution — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Emulsion and Solution
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Definitions
Emulsion➦
An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally immiscible (unmixable or unblendable) owing to liquid-liquid phase separation. Emulsions are part of a more general class of two-phase systems of matter called colloids.
Solution➦
A method or process of dealing with a problem
Sought a solution to falling enrollments.
Emulsion➦
A fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible
Oil beaten to an emulsion with a half tablespoonful of vinegar
Solution➦
The answer to a problem or the explanation for something
The solution to the mystery.
Emulsion➦
A type of paint used for walls, consisting of pigment bound in a synthetic resin which forms an emulsion with water
Three coats of white emulsion
Solution➦
A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances, which may be solids, liquids, gases, or a combination of these.
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Emulsion➦
Paint with emulsion
If the lining paper is not opaque, the wall should also be emulsioned
Solution➦
The process of forming such a mixture.
Emulsion➦
A suspension of small globules of one liquid in a second liquid with which the first will not mix
An emulsion of oil in vinegar.
Solution➦
The state of being dissolved
Nitrogen that is in solution in the ocean.
Emulsion➦
A photosensitive coating, usually of silver halide grains in a thin gelatin layer, on photographic film, paper, or glass.
Solution➦
(Archaic) The act of separating or breaking up; dissolution.
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Emulsion➦
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.
Solution➦
A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
Emulsion➦
(chemistry) A colloid in which both phases are liquid.
Solution➦
An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
Emulsion➦
(photography) The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.
Solution➦
An answer to a problem.
Emulsion➦
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.
Solution➦
(marketing) A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
Emulsion➦
(chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids;
An oil-in-water emulsion
Solution➦
Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
Emulsion➦
A light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin
Solution➦
The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid; dissolution.
Solution➦
The crisis of a disease.
Solution➦
To treat with a solution.
Solution➦
The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.
In all bodies there is an appetite of union and evitation of solution of continuity.
Solution➦
The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; - used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.
Solution➦
The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.
It is unquestionably an enterprise of more promise to assail the nations in their hour of faintness and solution, than at a time when magnificent and seductive systems of worship were at their height of energy and splendor.
Solution➦
The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product resulting from such absorption.
Solution➦
Release; deliverance; discharge.
Solution➦
The termination of a disease; resolution.
Solution➦
A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution;
He used a solution of peroxide and water
Solution➦
A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem;
They were trying to find a peaceful solution
The answers were in the back of the book
He computed the result to four decimal places
Solution➦
A method for solving a problem;
The easy solution is to look it up in the handbook
Solution➦
The set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
Solution➦
The successful action of solving a problem;
The solution took three hours
