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It appears indispensable in discussing our present knowledge regarding the so-called microemulsions to point to the most problematic and unsatisfactory situation connected with the microemulsion notion. There does not exist as yet an operational definition of the microemulsion concept which is likewise useful for water-in-oil and oil-in-water systems. The main confusion seems to be due to the fact that microemulsions were originally defined purely phenomenologically, i.e. according to the observation that homogeneous, transparent, and low viscous solutions can be formed with considerable amounts of water or oil dispersed in the antagonistic continuous components in the presence of suitable surfactants and (eventual) co-surfactants.
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Eicke, HF. (1982). The Microemulsion Concept in Nonpolar Surfactant Solutions. In: Robb, I.D. (eds) Microemulsions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0955-1_2
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