{"term":{"id":"01389","title":"creaming","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - creaming","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.C01389","code":"C01389","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"The macroscopic separation of a dilute emulsion into a highly concentrated emulsion, in which interglobular contact is important, and a continuous phase under the action of gravity or a centrifugal field. This separation usually occurs upward, but the term may still be applied if the relative densities of the dispersed and continuous phases are such that the concentrated emulsion settles downward.","links":[{"term":"emulsion","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/E02065"}],"sources":["PAC, 1972, 31, 577. 'Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physicochemical Quantities and Units, Appendix II: Definitions, Terminology and Symbols in Colloid and Surface Chemistry' on page 611 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac197231040577)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C01389\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C01389\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C01389\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'creaming' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.C01389","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-02T13:21:52+00:00"}}