What's the difference between demulsion and emulsion?

Demulsion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of soothing; that which soothes.

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Emulsion


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
  • (2) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
  • (3) After the incubation during 6 hours of Emulsions 1 and 2 with plasma the 36% and 50% decrease of the cholesterol content in plasma was found.
  • (4) Measurable quantities of temefos were found in the snails within 1 day after the first treatment with a 2% granular formulation but 3 weeks elapsed before uptake occurred following treatment with a temefos emulsion.
  • (5) Pediatric) (280 micrograms retinol; 160 IU vitamin D; 2.8 mg tocopherol; 0.68 mg riboflavin) in a lipid emulsion, Intralipid.
  • (6) A fat emulsion when injected into tissue is scarcely taken up by the blood vascular system but is retained within the tissue over a relatively extended period, and is distributed slowly into the surrounding tissues and to the regional lymph nodes.
  • (7) The effects of injecting either a novel perfluorodecalin (FDC)-based emulsion or various perfluorochemical (PFC) oils on liver cytochromes P-450 (P-450) and aryl esterase (LAE) enzymes in male rats have been studied.
  • (8) The mean plasma antibody titre to SRBC was significantly increased in some groups of animals injected with F-DA both before or after immunization; maximum titres were observed following injection of emulsion simultaneously with SRBC.
  • (9) For comparison, the same characteristics of currently used 20% water-soap benzylbenzoate emulsion and of the new ointment base, SAKAP (acryl copolymer), have been examined.
  • (10) Clinical efficacy of a new preparation of peplomycin emulsion in hydroxypropylcellulosum (HPC-PEP) was studied in 26 patients to compared with that in 14 patients administered with 60 mg of PEP in 20 ml saline (S-PEP).
  • (11) with nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis Jamaica cells associated with oil-droplet emulsions (WCV) were highly resistant to the i.v.
  • (12) The induction of a T cell proliferative response to a peptide antigen could be inhibited by co-administration of core-extended peptide with antigen in the same adjuvant emulsion.
  • (13) Microspheres of 14C-labeled highly cross-linked polyacrylamide (mean diameter 0.25-0.30 micron) have been prepared by emulsion polymerization.
  • (14) The immunogens were administered in water-in-oil emulsions containing pertussis vaccine as adjuvant.
  • (15) Infants receiving total parenteral nutrition including intravenous lipid emulsion excrete more than 100 pmol of pentane per kilogram body weight per minute.
  • (16) The soybean oil emulsion Intralipid was given intravenously to 12 healthy subjects for 2 hr.
  • (17) If the concentration of alcohol in decane is increased the amount of protein adsorbed on the emulsion is decreased.
  • (18) The formula of a new stable 20% benzylbenzoate emulsion is presented, so are the results of studies on its toxicity, local irritating and sensitizing effects in guinea pigs.
  • (19) It seems prudent to avoid hypertriglyceridemia secondary to intravenous fat emulsions, as this alone is a cause of pancreatitis, albeit uncommon, in patients with abnormalities of triglyceride metabolism.
  • (20) The emulsion stability were analyzed by visual inspection, Coulter-Counter and optic microscopy.

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