colloid

English

Etymology

From French colloïde, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) + -oid. Doublet of collage, collagen, and protocol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒlɔɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

colloid (comparative more colloid, superlative most colloid)

1. Glue-like; gelatinous.

   colloid tumours

Noun

colloid (plural colloids)

1. (physical chemistry) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.
2. (meteorology) An intimate mixture of two substances, one of which, called the dispersed phase (or colloid), is uniformly distributed in a finely divided state throughout the second substance, called the dispersion medium (or dispersing medium).
3. (geology) A particle less than 1 micron in diameter, following the Wentworth scale

Derived terms

• biocolloid
• colloidal
• colloidize
• colloidochemical
• colloidosome
• emulsoid
• eucolloid
• hydrocolloid
• isocolloid
• nanocolloid
• noncolloid
• phycocolloid
• radiocolloid
• saccharocolloid
• supracolloid

 

Translations

stable system of two phases

• Afrikaans: kolloïde sg
• Bulgarian: колоид m (koloid)
• Catalan: col·loide m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膠體／胶体 (zh) (jiāotǐ)

• Czech: koloid (cs) m
• Finnish: kolloidi (fi)
• French: colloïde (fr) m
• Galician: coloide m
• German: Kolloid n
• Greek: κολλοειδές n (kolloeidés)
• Indonesian: koloid (id)
• Irish: collóideach m
• Italian: colloide (it) m, colóide m
• Japanese: コロイド (ja) (koroido), 膠質 (ja) (こうしつ, kōshitsu)
• Kazakh: коллоид (kolloid)
• Korean: 교질(膠質) (gyojil)
• Malay: koloid
• Malayalam: കൊളോയിഡ് (koḷōyiḍŭ)
• Persian: کلوئید (fa)
• Polish: koloid (pl) m
• Portuguese: coloide (pt) m
• Romanian: coloid (ro) m, suspensie coloidală f
• Russian: колло́ид (ru) m (kollóid)
• Spanish: coloide (es) m
• Tagalog: maladigkit
• Telugu: కొల్లాయిడ్ (kollāyiḍ)
• Thai: คอลลอยด์ (th)
• Turkish: kolloit (tr)
• Ukrainian: колоїд m (kolojid)
• Vietnamese: hệ keo (系膠)

See also

• solid sol solid in solid
• sol solid in liquid
• aerosol solid or liquid in gas
• gel liquid in solid
• emulsion liquid in liquid
• foam gas in liquid or solid
• aerogel gas in solid