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Content: akin to Old English melcan to milk, Greek amelgein
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: a mixture of liquids
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emul·​sion | \ i-ˈməl-shən
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: two liquids mixed together so that tiny drops of one liquid are scattered throughout the other
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1 a : a system (as fat in milk) consisting of a liquid dispersed with or without an emulsifier in an immiscible liquid usually in droplets of larger than colloidal size
b : the state of such a system
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