"Colloids" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Two-phase systems in which one is uniformly dispersed in another as particles small enough so they cannot be filtered or will not settle out. The dispersing or continuous phase or medium envelops the particles of the discontinuous phase. All three states of matter can form colloids among each other.
| Descriptor ID |
D003102
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D20.280 D26.255.165 D27.720.280.165
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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