noun
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Any substance that can be crystallized from solution
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One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells.
adjective
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Crystal-like; transparent like crystal, or shaped like a crystal.
Examples of crystalloid in a Sentence
In yet other solutions, the particles are smaller again, and seem to approach in size the larger molecules of crystalloid substances.
It is not yet agreed whether colloid solution is the same in kind though different in degree from crystalloid solution or is a phenomenon of an entirely different order.
Graham (Chemical and Physical Researches) recommended dialysis as the best mode of preparing gummic acid, and stated that the power of gum to penetrate the parchment septum is 400 times less than that of sodium chloride, and, further, that by mixing the gum with substances of the crystalloid class the diffusibility is lowered, and may be even reduced to nothing.