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He thus arrived at a division of matter into colloidal and crystalloidal.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)

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 Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred

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 Morgan, Sidney

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

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 Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)