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colloidal
/kəˈlɔɪdəl/
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kuh-LOY-duhl: the stressed vowel rhymes with “boy.”
The double l represents one l sound. Keep both surrounding vowels light, and finish with d followed by a soft uhl.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The sample contained colloidal particles suspended in water.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does colloidal mean?
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a colloid.
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/kəˈlɔɪdəl/
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Probably not, for most of the body fluids are of that colloidal nature in which coagulation occurs in the presence of small quantities of special agents.
As2O3, in cases of suspected poisoning, was formerly separated from the stomach in this way, as it is a crystalloid, whereas most of the other contents of the stomach are colloidal.
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Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on—in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men.