colloid

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
colloid /ˈkɒlɔɪd/

▶noun a homogeneous non-crystalline substance consisting of large molecules or ultramicroscopic particles of one substance dispersed in a second substance, as in gels, sols, and emulsions.

■ Anatomy & Medicine a substance of gelatinous consistency.

– derivatives
colloidal adjective.

– origin C19: from Gk kolla ‘glue’ + -oid.

'colloid' also found in these Oxford entries:

coacervate - crystalloid - disperse - lyophilic - lyophobic - monodisperse

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