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  • adverb With respect to colloids

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  • adverb in a colloidal manner

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Examples

  • The small colloidally fine particles of I-713 in the flesh would set up their own danger sig­nal, and could be scraped away in the worst cases; otherwise, they'd probably have to stay until the isotope exhausted itself.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • Tanning experiments with this partly neutralised product resulted in a very gradual conversion of the pelt into a greenish-grey coloured leather; the colour, however, does not penetrate the pelt and is hence caused by colloidally suspended impurities.

    Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

  • One may therefore assume that tannoid substances are colloidally suspended, and when converted into true solutions are incapable of being fixed in insoluble form by the pelt.

    Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

  • In combination with low-methoxy pectin, colloidally stable nanocomplexes of DHA-and beta-lactoglobulin were produced.

    NutraIngredients RSS 2009

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