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suspensoid

[ suh-spen-soid ]

noun

, Physical Chemistry.
  1. a sol having a solid disperse phase.


suspensoid

/ səˈspɛnsɔɪd /

noun

  1. chem a system consisting of a suspension of solid particles in a liquid
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of suspensoid1

First recorded in 1920–25; suspens(ion) + (coll)oid
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Example Sentences

But in a gold sol, or suspensoid, which contains particles of gold of the size used in this calculation, the gold particles do not settle, even at the slow rate as calculated above.

The conditions necessary to bring a solid substance into a colloidal mixture with some liquid, or, in other words, to produce a suspensoid sol, require that the proportion of liquid to solid shall be large and some means of disintegrating the material which is to be dispersed into very fine particles.

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