crystalloid
noun
a usually crystallizable substance that, when dissolved in a liquid, will diffuse readily through vegetable or animal membranes.
crystalloidal
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a word derived from
crystalloid.
Example Sentences
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The chromatophores contain a variable number of pyrenoids, colourless proteid bodies of a crystalloidal character.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
This may be due to the power of colloidal substances to retain other crystalloidal substances, such as the bases, which, in consequence, cannot be washed out.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
He further discovered that the same individual chemical element or compound may exist sometimes in crystalloidal, and sometimes in colloidal, form.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
Let us suppose that this mixture contained sugar and gum; the crystalloidal sugar soon passed through the parchment paper, and was found in the water outside, but the colloidal gum remained in the dialyser.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
That is, the state of a substance may be either gaseous, liquid, or solid; and its condition when in solution may be either crystalloidal or colloidal.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
