Definition of colloids Colloids
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What does colloids mean?
Wiktionary 
- colloids (Noun)
Plural of colloid.
Part of speech
🔤- colloids, noun, plural of colloid.
WordNet
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| colloid - a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension | ||
| mixture (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding) | ||
| silver protein a colloid preparation of protein (albumin or gelatin) and silver oxide; used in aqueous solution as an antibacterial agent | ||
| colloidal gel, gel a colloid in a more solid form than a sol | ||
| colloidal solution, colloidal suspension, sol the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization | ||
| emulsion a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin | ||
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Wiktionary
- colloid (Noun)
A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles. - colloid (Noun)
An intimate mixture of two substances one of which, called the dispersed phase or colloid, is uniformly distributed in a finely divided state throughout the second substance, called the dispersion medium or dispersing medium. The dispersion medium may be a gas, a liquid, or a solid, and the dispersed phase may also be any of these, with the exception that one does not speak of a colloidal system of one gas in another. A system of liquid or solid particles colloidally dispersed in a gas is called an aerosol. A system of solid substances or water- insoluble liquids colloidally dispersed in liquid water is called a hydrosol. - colloid (Noun)
A particle less than 1 micron in diameter, following the Wentworth scale . - colloid (Adjective)
Glue-like; gelatinous.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- colloid (a.)
Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors. - colloid (n.)
A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid. - colloid (n.)
A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
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colloid
An intimate mixture of two substances, one of which, called the dispersed phase, is uniformly distributed in a finely divided state through the second substance, called the dispersion medium.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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colloid
kol′oid, n. a name given by Graham, in contradistinction to crystalloids, to any soluble substance, which, when exposed to dialysis, does not pass through the porous membrane.—adj. Colloid′al. [Gr. kolla, glue, and eidos, form.]
Part of speech
🔤- colloid, noun, singular of colloids.
- colloid, adjective.
