原液

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 原液, read げんえき, denotes a stock or concentrated liquid used as a base for dilution or processing.
• Basic usage: In 工場では果汁の原液を冷凍して保管している。, the factory stores fruit-juice concentrate frozen.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Stock liquid and purity
  • 原液 names a liquid relative to dilution. It does not mean the liquid is a pure substance containing only one component.
• Dilution
  • 原液を薄める means to dilute the stock liquid, while 薄めた液 is the resulting diluted liquid. Distinguish the starting liquid from the processed one.