Bitumen vs Emulsion - What's the difference?
bitumen | emulsion |
Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew’s pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc.
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By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petrolea, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
(Canadian English) Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil[http://www.energy.gov.ab.ca/OilSands/793.asp]
a stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible
(chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquid
the coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film
As nouns the difference between bitumen and emulsion
is that bitumen is bitumen while emulsion is emulsion.bitumen
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(wikipedia bitumen)Noun
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* (mineral pitch) (all obsolete)References
See also
* asphalt ----emulsion
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(wikipedia emulsion) (en noun)- Mayonnaise is an emulsion where egg is used to keep oil and water mixed.