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colloids

colloids is the plural of colloid.

Meaning of colloid

Noun

colloid (plural colloids)

  1. (physical) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.
  2. 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).
  3. A particle less than 1 micron in diameter, following the Wentworth scale

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Questions about colloids

What is colloids the plural of?
Colloids is the plural of colloid.

Words near colloids in the dictionary

  1. colloidochemical
  2. colloidoclastic
  3. colloidosmotic
  4. colloidosome
  5. colloidosomes
  6. colloids
  7. Collom
  8. Collombatti
  9. Colloms
  10. collonade
  11. collonaded

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