From a technical standpoint, conventional emulsions can be understood as oil-in-water emulsions, whereby the continuous phase is water. Inverse emulsions are the opposite, for example, water-in-oil ...

IT has long been known that wool wax is hydrolysed only with great difficulty as an oil-in-water emulsion. For example, only about 40 per cent reaction is obtained after boiling with N/2 sodium ...