"Colloidal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... principle of osmosis, is limited to crystalloid substances. But colloid substances are also known to pass through the various partitions of the body. An example of such is found in the proteids of the blood which, as a colloidal solution, pass through the capillary walls to become a part of the lymph. Perhaps the best explanation offered as yet for this passage is that the colloidal substances are changed by the cells lining the capillaries into substances that form true solutions and that after ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M. |
