Colloids What do you know about some liquid mixtures? Are all liquid mixtures solutions? For example, milk is a mixture of fats, protein, water and other substances. Milk is a mixture but not a solution. Milk is referred to as a colloid. A colloid is a mixture that contains tiny undissolved particles that do not settle. The particles in colloids are larger than particles in a solution. Can you name any other colloids in the home? Would you classify tomato ketchup as a solution of colloid? Explain. Suspensions Some mixtures are neither solutions nor colloids. What are they called? How are they different from a solution or a colloid? A suspension is a type of mixture where solid particles do not dissolve in a liquid & lore solution, no matter how hard you shake or stir it. When is a mixture not * A suspension is not a solution or a colloid? solution. 4 The particles ina Materials needed: — suspension are big * clear plastic bottle * sand enough to settle if left * water * spoon undisturbed and can be Procedure: seen with the naked eye. Teacher will guide pupils: Sandy water is a (1) Fill clear plastic bottle with water. suspension that easily (2) Pour the spoon of sand in the water. shows these (3) Shake the bottle vigorously characteristics. Sand is What do you observe? dispersed but not dissolved in water, (4) Let mixture stand for about 10 minutes causing the mixture to then examine the mixture again. become murky. If left What do you observe? alone, the sand 3 eventually settles, proving Record your observation. that it is a suspension.Did the water look cloudy or unclear, as if particles were suspended, or floating, in it? If so, your mixture is a suspension. In a suspension the particles do not dissolve. Instead, they are ‘suspended’ in the liquid. When left alone for a while, the solid particles will settle, usually to the bottom, as shown in Figure 5.6b, unless they are light, like sawdust particles, which might float. Fine clay particles can femain suspended in water for a very long time, settling gradually to the bottom. However, a suspension can be fine solids in a liquid, also liquid drops or fine solids in a gas, or a solid in solid suspension, such as soil. Having made a suspension, and seen what happens, how do you think you would separate it to get back the solids? Read the following more than once to best answer each item. 1 Why isa solution a mixture? 2. The same amount of each substance, named below, was put into each test tube, stirred into a similar volume of water and left together for 10 minutes. Clay Sugar Chalk powder Fine sand syrup a) Was this a fair test? Give a reason for your answer. b) Which of the mixtures are a suspension? ©) Which ones are solutions?What is a mixture and how can mixtures be separated? Colloids Colloids are all around you. Many foods you eat, for example peanut butter, jello, and other things such as plastics, smoke, and even clouds, are examples of colloids. * A colloid is a mixture in which very small particles of one substance spread out evenly throughout another substance. It has properties between those of a solution and fine suspension. In fact, a colloidal mixture often looks very much like a solution but the particles are suspended in the liquid rather than being fully dissolved throughout. You might think it is a suspension because the particles are not dissolved. However, colloids are different from suspensions, because the particles are not heavy enough to sink to the bottom of the liquid. They will not settle over a period of time and will remain either suspended or will float at the surface. Many other colloids that you use often look quite different from one another. Some colloids are gels, for example gelatin and hair gels; some are aerosols, for example can spray and fog. Others are foams, for example shaving cream, sponge and styrofoam. A common, well-used example of another type of colloid is milk, which is a mixture of liquid butterfat globules spread through and suspended in water. The two do not mix together. Milk and mayonnaise are a special type of colloid called emulsion. Both butter and cheese are also emulsions. Homework Collect pictures or do illustrations of solutions, suspensions and colloids. Use them to make mini charts and display them in your classroom. EsI 7 a Rien t ma using the erms “ Mites | Ss , 1 Solution, Suspens lons Colloids 2. Write fe Tented ote Mixchares Soluhons, : Suspension, Colloids ,