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suspensoid

[ suh-spen-soid ]

noun

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


suspensoid

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noun

  1. chem a system consisting of a suspension of solid particles in a liquid
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Origin of suspensoid1

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

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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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