Barry Jenkins

Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.

American Director

Steve Aoki

I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.

American Musician

Penn Jillette

My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.

American Entertainer

Keanu Reeves

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

Canadian Actor

Samin Nosrat

I love mayonnaise. It's one of the first lessons I teach my cooking students. Turning eggs and oil into an emulsion - that creamy, satisfying third thing - feels like magic.

American Chef

Used often when discussing cooking and food like sauces and dressings.

Food context

In science, emulsions are studied for their properties and behavior.

Scientific usage

Emulsion is a common term in the beauty industry for creams and lotions.

Cosmetic products

Refers to a particular type of wall paint used for its smooth finish.

Home decorating

When purchasing paint, 'emulsion' specifies the water-based nature of the product.

Painting terms

Highlights the light-sensitive aspect important in film photography.

Photography specifics

Understanding how emulsion works is key in developing photographic film.

Film development

 And if you look at this photograph carefully, the bottom half of this is rather brown. And that glue is hide glue. Now if you're a conservator, you can take off this glue reasonably easily. The top half is Elmer's wood glue. It's polyvinyl acetate emulsion that doesn't dissolve in water once it's dry.

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 the butter inside melts, causing the dough to start spreading out. Butter is an emulsion, or mixture of two substances that don't want to stay together, in this case, water and fat, along with some dairy solids that help hold them together. As the butter melts, its trapped water is released.

The chemistry of cookies...

 coconut oil for fragrance I've got peppermint and rosemary essential oils because they smell delightful now all these ingredients are fattier oily and since I don't want to be rubbing pure fatty oily stuff into my hair I'm gonna make an oil in water emulsion which is basically salad

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