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.

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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a colloid

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  • adjective of or relating to or having the properties of a colloid

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Examples

  • 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

    Colloidal Silver Water Purification 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • This study covers the world market for specialty silicas, including precipitated silica, fumed silica, silica gel, and silica sol (also known as colloidal silica).

    Automotive news - from just-auto.com 2010

  • 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

  • This study covers the world market for specialty silicas, including precipitated silica, fumed silica, silica gel, and silica sol (also known as colloidal silica).

    Automotive news - from just-auto.com 2010

  • 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.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • 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.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • You need oats ground to a powder - called colloidal oatmeal.

    Mensfitness.com 2009

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