(A colloid is a stable suspension of silver particles in water.). From Wordnik.com. [Alison Rose Levy: Is Silver the Solution?] Reference
In passing it may be mentioned that the name colloid originates precisely from kolla, the Greek word for glue. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Mucinous breast cancer, also known as colloid carcinoma, is a rare type of invasive breast cancer formed by mucus-producing cancer cells. From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
So, it burst out rampant spilling the red colloid. From Wordnik.com. [A demise or a beginning..] Reference
Maternal colloid osmotic pressure after fetal surgery. From Wordnik.com. [Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation publications] Reference
Kolloidchemie (Organic colloid chemistry), published by. From Wordnik.com. [Hermann Staudinger - Biography] Reference
"No cellular structure at all, just a protein-colloid matrix.". From Wordnik.com. [Star Surgeon] Reference
The colloid contains the iodine and so does the hormone it produces. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Nor can the colloid be transferred in whole or in part to a new container. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan Star]
This condition can be easily achieved by passing it through a colloid mill. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Mariculture of red algae as a source of the colloid carrageenan is highly developed. From Wordnik.com. [4 Coastal Mariculture] Reference
But colloid substances are also known to pass through the various partitions of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
Rudolf Ladenburg; from the Institute came much work on colloid chemistry and atomic physics. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz Haber - Biography] Reference
The more you try to verbally sock it to him, the more he clings to you like an odoriferous oily colloid. From Wordnik.com. [1 nation, indivisible, except by 0] Reference
Swedish and foreign journals on colloid and high-molecular solutions, nuclear chemistry and radiation biology. From Wordnik.com. [The Svedberg - Biography] Reference
Colette colitis collapse of communism collateral collective bargaining collective farm collective unconscious colloid. From Wordnik.com. [Entry Index: cladistics to cross-fertilization] Reference
An example of a colloid is found in the albumin of an egg, which is unable to penetrate the membrane which surrounds it. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
Even the nurses, trained to be compassionate, did not consider him alive, but merely in suspension, like a colloid in a lab. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
No matter how/many follicles form and how much colloid is produced, the thyroid hormone cannot be manufactured without iodine. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
The colloid from the seaweed, like agar referred to above, readily forms gels in hot water, and is thus referred to as a hydrocolloid. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Inorganic chemistry has revealed more and more cases where only a colloid-chemical approach was able to clarify the observed phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1926 - Presentation Speech] Reference
It was very soon found that sometimes one and the same substance can occur in one case as a crystalloid and in another case as a colloid. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The procedure is to delimit optically a small volume of the colloid to be examined, after which the number of particles in it is counted. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925 - Presentation Speech] Reference
A colloid, on the other hand, e.g. glue, is unable to pass through such membranes and diffuses extremely slowly, in contrast to the crystalloid. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Don't worry about it, though — the old principle of Brownian movement will keep any colloid suspended, if it's fine enough to be a real colloid. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
As all living matter is built up largely from organic colloids, the importance of colloid research for physiology and the medical sciences is obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1926 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Then the Sun rises and through the colloid strikes out our lamps. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
He opened the colloid in that heavenly stillness and mopped his face. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
Captain Hodgson opens the great colloid underbody porthole through which. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
The liner cheers hollowly above us, and we see the passengers 'faces at the saloon colloid. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
The bow colloid is unshuttered and Captain Purnall, one hand on the wheel, is feeling for a fair slant. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
Heat intensifies this action of the colloids, and a colloid in a state of decomposition is specially active. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Substances in the colloid state are almost always, when combined with water, more or less viscous or gelatinous. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
These tumours sometimes become cystic, the cysts being lined with ciliated epithelium and containing colloid material. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
"There's this wealth of behavior in molecular glass and we never saw this wealth of behavior in colloid particles," Weitz said. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
A rapid journey home via Brindisi might have rattled my brains back into the colloid state in which they were when I left England. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
Tim slides open the aft colloid and reveals the curve of the world -- the ocean's deepest purple -- edged with fuming and intolerable gold. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
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