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For example, the particles comprising smoke are often colloidally dispersed and electrically charged.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

That should be just the ticket Saturday for SRO treatments of Radiohead's colloidally suspended sound on albums "The Bends" and "Ok Computer."

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2011

Up at school I started fooling around with various metals, and one idea I had was to suspend them in tiny particles, colloidally almost, in plastic.

From All That Goes Up by Brooks, Kirby

One may therefore assume that tannoid substances are colloidally suspended, and when converted into true solutions are incapable of being fixed in insoluble form by the pelt.

From Synthetic Tannins by Grasser, Georg