English-Spanish translations for colloid

• coloide
  Incluso puede ocurrir que los coloides del suelo en algunas aguas nos den una lectura superior a las señaladas en el informe. But it can happen that, in some water, soil colloids produce readings which are higher than those indicated in the report.

Definition of colloid

• Glue-like; gelatinous
• A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles
• A particle less than 1 micron in diameter, following the Wentworth scale

Examples

• colloid tumours

Related words

• colloquial
• colloquialism
• colloquially
• collodion
• colloidal
• colloquium
• colloidally
• collocation
• colloquy