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colloid

About 1.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Glue-like; gelatinous.
    colloid tumours
  2. noun A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.
  3. 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).
  4. noun A particle less than 1 micron in diameter, following the Wentworth scale

Similar words

hydrophile lyophobic lyophilic milium hydrosol sol gel emulsion suspension dispersion

Often followed by

interface and osmotic chemistry polym science is sci particles

Word family

colloidal colloidally colloids

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