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colloid

How to use colloid in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for colloid.

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And your two year old's sense of smell...Soap creates a colloid with the germs and oils and dirt.

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Quick take

a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for colloid.

noun

a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension

Example sentences

1

And your two year old's sense of smell...Soap creates a colloid with the germs and oils and dirt.

2

No, the gold/silver colloids would have been made chemically.

3

Pitch is also a colloidal suspension, or colloid.

4

I presume they can't make colloids out of carbon directly, hence the multistep process.

5

And don't go anywhere near colloids, those have so many empirically sourced parameters it will make your head spin.

6

Where I get concerned is where do we define the raw data?For my thesis, I measured the Paterson function for a series of colloids.

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This might be a trade secret, but how are you keeping the colloid solution coherent?I'm kinda surprised you say that brewing the ristrettos are the hard parts.

8

The Wikipedia page on pitch [3] says it is a "viscoelastic polymer".So I have to ask. Can a polymer be a suspension or a colloid on its own or is pitch a polymer colloid in another "host" substance?

9

The difficulty of filtering out tritium from water is that tritium oxide is water and not some solution or colloid.

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How do you use colloid in a sentence?

And your two year old's sense of smell...Soap creates a colloid with the germs and oils and dirt.

What does colloid mean?

a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension

What part of speech is colloid?

colloid is commonly used as noun.