Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to or of the nature of a crystalloid.
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- adjective Relating to a
crystalloid .
Etymologies
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crystalloid + -al
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Examples
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Others again imagined the difference to be that the colloidal solutions were not uniform throughout, not homogeneous as the crystalloidal ones, but that they contained particles, molecule aggregates, of a size which exceeded by many times the size of the molecules in a crystalloidal solution.
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For instance, gold with mercury produce a crystalloidal solution, whilst gold in an aqueous solution exists only in the colloidal state.
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It is consequently more correct to differentiate between crystalloidal and colloidal states rather than between crystalloidal and colloidal substances.
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