Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a colloid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a
colloid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or having the properties of a colloid
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Examples
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I think I'm going to continue doing exactly what I'm doing: drinking and cooling with bottled water, bathing and washing in colloidal silver-purified tap water (our house is only 8 years old) and investigating alternatives. lbc
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One example: New promotions on the Web assert that swine flu - and many other ailments - can be eradicated by using so-called colloidal silver, a mixture that includes very fine silver particles.
Ben Sherwood: Hogwash Alert: How to Survive the Pandemic of Swine Flu Scams and Swindle 2009
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A FilterPure filter is a round ceramic pot made of clay, a combustible material like saw dust or rice husks and a naturally occurring antibacterial called colloidal silver.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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A FilterPure filter is a round ceramic pot made of clay, a combustible material like saw dust or rice husks and a naturally occurring antibacterial called colloidal silver.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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This study covers the world market for specialty silicas, including precipitated silica, fumed silica, silica gel, and silica sol (also known as colloidal silica).
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A FilterPure filter is a round ceramic pot made of clay, a combustible material like saw dust or rice husks and a naturally occurring antibacterial called colloidal silver.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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This study covers the world market for specialty silicas, including precipitated silica, fumed silica, silica gel, and silica sol (also known as colloidal silica).
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One example: New promotions on the Web assert that swine flu - and many other ailments - can be eradicated by using so-called colloidal silver, a mixture that includes very fine silver particles.
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One example: New promotions on the Web assert that swine flu - and many other ailments - can be eradicated by using so-called colloidal silver, a mixture that includes very fine silver particles.
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You need oats ground to a powder - called colloidal oatmeal.
Mensfitness.com 2009
madmouth commented on the word colloidal
stacked suffixes of the same grammatical category make madmouth's blood boil
August 14, 2009