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Colloidal

Colloidal \Col*loid"al\, a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
colloidal

1861, from colloid + -al (1).

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colloidal

a. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a colloid.

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colloidal

adj. of or relating to or having the properties of a colloid

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Usage examples of "colloidal".

Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on--in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men.

The risk was not so much to the cameras, it was to the history of his infant profession if one camera failed and the battle went unrecorded on colloidal plate.

Its conclusion: Yes, given a brilliant man applying Belloni matrices to cybernetic formulas and using some unknown kind of colloidal probe, a psychological masking technique was plausible.

I was in it now, riding the aggregate, a tiny particle attracted out of solution to the colloidal mass.

He unloaded the big camera and watched O'Sullivan, one-handed, apply the colloidal wash and prepare the plate.

But you've got to admit that biological economy is a matter of colloidal chemistry.

There are protocols built in to the machine, protocols I can do nothing about, that forbid the creation of colloidal sentiences by artificial means.

As the material spread, it thickened into a colloidal gel that turned many cubic meters of sea water into salt treacle.

This is a colloidal solution of very fine particles that will set, or coagulate, into a gel.

A hand submerged in it emerged with a slimy coat for the water was so full of algae, single cells and other minute life forms that it acted like a colloidal solution.

The effects of downing the beaker loaded with the colloidal suspension, activated by a spoonful of the Sebastian packet's contents, were still setting in on him.

The effects of downing the beaker loaded with the colloidal suspension, activated by a spoonful of the Sebastian packet’.

A colloidal suspension of metals in silicon jelly was provided with nodes.

A view of the backyard included a modest swimming pool, characteristic desert landscaping, and a rather more impressive glitter fountain, its kaleidoscopic particulates held in splendid colloidal suspension.

The water was a colloidal suspension of Who bodies and Who buildings and Who villages under a black corrugated sky.