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1915 E. W. Washburn Princ. Physical Chem. xxv. 361 If we imagine any phase within a given system to be gradually broken up into smaller and smaller particles, then as the size of these particles gradually decreases the surface of contact between this phase and its neighbors will correspondingly increase and the effects of forces of the nature of surface tension..will gradually become more apparent, and these surface forces will eventually begin to be an important factor in determining the fugacities of the molecular species composing the system. Whenever this situation exists to an appreciable extent..we have what is called a disperse system or a dispersoid.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) IX. 585/2 Condensed dispersoids and fine mechanical dispersoids generally tend to flocculate or agglomerate.