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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The purest form of gelatin, taken as the type of all similar substances, which are hence called colloids.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A very pure form of gelatin.

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  • noun A very pure form of gelatin.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek κόλλα (kolla, "glue").

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