Definition of Colloidal

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or having the properties of a colloid.

Partainyms: Colloid
Derivative terms: Colloid

Definition of Colloidal

1. a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.

Definition of Colloidal

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a colloid ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Colloidal

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Colloidal

1. Of the nature of a colloid. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colloidal

colloid
colloid acne
colloid adenoma
colloid bath
colloid bodies
colloid cancer
colloid carcinoma
colloid corpuscle
colloid cyst
colloid goiter
colloid milium
colloid pseudomilium
colloid system
colloid theory of narcosis
colloidal (current term)
colloidal dispersion
colloidal gel
colloidal gold reaction
colloidal metal
colloidal radioactive gold
colloidal silicon dioxide
colloidal silver iodide
colloidal solution
colloidal suspension
colloidalities
colloidality
colloidally
colloidin
colloidoclasia

Literary usage of Colloidal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1921)
"Any substance is in the colloidal state when the constituent particles consist of molecular or atomic groups, whose size varies approximately from about ..."

2. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"The colloidal state difiere from a coarsely heterogeneous system, ... It is convenient to have names for the two phases of which a colloidal system usually ..."

3. The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher (1921)
"Evidence in favor of the accuracy of this view of the nature of the catalytic action of colloidal substances is afforded by the facts that catalysts ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"The colloidal silver was given internally in doses of a tablespoonful every half to one hour of a 0.5 to 1.5 per cent, solution; twice a day 30 grains of ..."

5. Soil Conditions and Plant Growth by Edward John Russell (1917)
"THE colloidal PROPERTIES OF SOIL. GRAHAM in 1861 introduced the term "colloids" to denote those bodies, which like glue, tend to form jellies rather than ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"effect of rabbit serum on various positive and negative colloids, Field found that such serum precipitated colloidal platinum and colloidal silver to a fair ..."

7. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"266 and 323, true 'colloidal solutions' depending for their solubility on the presence of electrolytes are permanent as long as all chemical change is ..."

8. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1921)
"colloidal State in Metals and Alloys BY JEROME ALEXANDER,* M. Sc., NEW YORK, NY (Columbus Meeting. October, 1920) THE object of this paper is to show that ..."

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