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Term used in pharmaceutical technology to describe the physical change of an emulsion. When an emulsion (emulsion from lat. emulgare = milking out - originally referring to the emulsion milk) is broken, the components of the emulsion (oil in water emulsion or water in oil emulsion), which were previously combined in a stable preparation, separate again into their individual phases (oil and water).
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer