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Emulsion

noun

(chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids.

A light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin. Synonym: photographic emulsion.

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... 50 deg. below zero, and an exposure made immediately. Then the camera was left in position for an hour and another exposure made. There was little difference in the strength of the negatives, and what difference there was seemed in favour of the second exposure. Evidently, if the emulsion had slowed, the shutter had slowed also; so opportunity was awaited to make a more decisive test. When there remained but one exposure on a roll of film, the camera was set outdoors at a temperature of 55 deg. below zero and left for ...

— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck

... highly gratifying to Medora—it was just the one, in fact, that she had hoped to bring about. City and country, oil and water were mixing, and she herself was acting as the third element that made the emulsion possible. From her place down the other side of the table she kept her eyes and ears open for all that was going on. She saw with joy that Abner was almost chatting. He had given over for the present the ponderous consideration of knotty abstractions; ...

— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller

Words linked to "Emulsion" : colloid, chemical science, coating, coat, silver bromide, silver nitrate, emulsify, chemistry