colloidal
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Such colloidal particles -- small solid particles suspended in a fluid phase -- can be seen as an excellent way to measure and also manipulate the motion of the living cells' membrane.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Physicists at Leipzig University have now created a type of neural network that works not with electricity but with so-called active colloidal particles.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024
"We show that these can be used for calculations and at the same time present a method that suppresses the influence of disruptive effects, such as noise, in the movement of the colloidal particles."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024
Before Paltrow, libertarians gravitated toward colloidal silver in the early aughts in part thanks to a man named Stan Jones, who also turned blue from ingesting too much colloidal silver.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2024
When the nerve particles pass from the colloidal condition into the state of gelation, or become jellied, the nerve experiences a stimulation or becomes active.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
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