colloidal suspension
Americannoun
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This faux-integration is called a colloidal suspension; in layman's terms, the oil, broken into smaller bits via your brute force, is suspended briefly in water.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2022
Burgess can convincingly describe ways in which images might come to a kind of colloidal suspension in the expectant poet's mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his visions, as in his plaints, Reich is a peculiar blend of Vance Packard and Pollyanna, a colloidal suspension of William Buckley, William Blake and Herbert Marcuse in pure applesauce.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is undoubtedly a colloidal suspension of the starch in water.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
He's the fellow who got me to wondering about energized metal particles in colloidal suspension.
From All That Goes Up by Brooks, Kirby
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