suspensoid Physical Chem.
(səˈspɛnsɔɪd)
[a. G. suspensoid (P. P. von Weimarn 1908, in Zeitschr. f. Chem. u. Industr. d. Kolloide III. 27/2), f. suspens-ion suspension: see -oid.]
A lyophobic colloid from which the dispersed phase is readily (and often irreversibly) precipitated by the addition of an electrolyte.
| 1909, etc. [see emulsoid]. 1927 [see lyophobe a.]. 1936 Jrnl. Faraday Soc. XXXII. 1166 The variation of sulphur dioxide and black suspensoids during the fog of 23rd December, 1935, in London, is shown. 1954 [see kern n.2 3]. 1975 Jrnl. Faculty Fisheries & Animal Husbandry (Hiroshima Univ.) XIV. 24 Suspensoids were collected from the surface and bottom water samples at stations 3 and 13. |