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A mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension
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colloid
Word definitions for colloid in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colloid \Col"loid\, a. [Gr. ko`lla glue + -oid. Cf. Collodion .] Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. glue-like; gelatinous. n. 1 (context chemistry English) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles. 2 (context meteorology English) An intimate mixture of two substances one of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1847, from French colloide (1845), from Greek kolla "glue" + -oeides "form" (see -oid ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A colloid , in chemistry , is a mixture in which one substance of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance. Sometimes the dispersed substance alone is called the colloid; the term colloidal suspension refers ...
Usage examples of colloid.
He found that smokeless power is produced by colloiding nitrocellulose with special solvents followed by a drying process and that the nitroglycerine bonded with the nitrocellulose and would not separate in storage.
An example of a colloid is found in the albumin of an egg, which is unable to penetrate the membrane which surrounds it.
Paul a whit behind when he succeeded in producing laboratory colloids exhibiting amoeba-like activities, and when he cast new light upon the processes of fertilization through his startling experiments with simple sodium chlorides and magnesium solutions on low forms of marine life.
But they do exchange quantities of complex colloids monthly, presumably sharing data.
Her neck muscles ached, the colloid was thudding in the veins in her temples, she felt like throwing up.
The slow bending of the valve from the weight of particles of glass and even of boxwood, though largely supported by the water, is, I suppose, analogous to the slow bending of colloid substances.
He bent over and saw the red, bleeding skin on the chest, pulpy green below that, and the pale colloid ribs that supported.
It showed the same distinctive permanent colloid pattern as the sample he had ready for comparison.
I'm not contending that colloids are not the fabric of living tissuethey are.
Of course mine was greased, which proved that the Vestal Virgins had a practical understanding of colloid chemistry.
My data processing system has mimicked a colloid mind to short-circuit my decision tree.
No matter how/many follicles form and how much colloid is produced, the thyroid hormone cannot be manufactured without iodine.
His body had been around for a while, and his personality and odd subaware stuff were still clinging to his artificial neurodes and dendrites and synaptic colloids, but he had no substantial memory of his past.
New chapters opened up in the physics of colloids, in the physics of strong interactions, in neutrino astronomy, in nucleonics, biology, and, above all, the new knowledge of the Universe -- this represents but the first interest that has accrued to us from the informational principal, which, according to the experts, promises huge profits to come.