What are the three properties of colloids?
Colloidal dispersion is derived from two words "colloidal" and 'dispersion"."colloidal" means "colloids" and "dispersion" means "spreading". So colloidal dispersion is a system in which colloids particle or dispersed particles (also known as internal phase) are spreading or uniformly distributed in the dispersion medium (external phase or continuous phase). Colloidal dispersion is a homogeneous and heterogeneous system, depending upon particle size time it may be homogeneous and sometimes it may be heterogeneous. If the particle size of the dispersion phase is (<0.01 mm) examples are urea, oxygen gas, sucrose, and ions are these types of system known as homogeneous systems and it looks like a "true solution". If the particle size of the dispersion phase is (0.5 to 1.0 mm) examples are insulin, acacia, albumin, and silver sols are these types of systems known as heterogeneous systems or phases and the appearance of...