Preferred Label : colloidal;
IUPAC definition : The term refers to a state of subdivision, implying that the molecules or polymolecular
particles dispersed in a medium have at least in one direction a dimension roughly
between 1 nm and 1 µm, or that in a system discontinuities are found at distances
of that order.;
Origin ID : C01172;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- colloid [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- See also
The term refers to a state of subdivision, implying that the molecules or polymolecular
particles dispersed in a medium have at least in one direction a dimension roughly
between 1 nm and 1 µm, or that in a system discontinuities are found at distances
of that order.
