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Colloid Presentation 1
Colloid Presentation 1
2 Visibility Particles are invisible to the naked Particles are invisible to the naked Particles are visible to
eye and even in microscope eye but their scattering effect can be the naked eye.
observed with the help of a
microscope.
3 Settling Particles do not settle down on Particles do not settle down on their Particles settle down on
keeping. own but can be made to settle down their own under gravity.
by centrifugation
4 Filterability Pass through ordinary filter paper Pass through ordinary filter paper but Do not pass through
and also through animal membrane. not through animal membrane. filter paper or animal
membrane.
5 Separation The solute and solvent cannot be The solute and The solute and solvent
separated by ordinary filtration or solvent cannot be can be separated by
by ultra filtration. separated ordinary filtration.
by ordinary filtration
but can be separated
by ultra-filtration.
4 Diffusion Diffuse quickly Diffuse slowly Do not diffuse
5. These are generally inorganic materials, i.e., metal sulphide and Mostly organic materials, e.g., starch, protein, gum etc.
oxide sol.
6. Carry electric charge and stability depends on Zeta potential. Carry little or no charge.
7. The colloidal particles are visible with microscope or ultra The colloidal particles are not visible.
microscope.
8. The physical property is followed by the laws of mixture Physical properties like density, refractive index do not follow
the laws of mixture.
Emulsion
• An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally
immiscible to each other but using emulsifying agents one liquid is
dispersed into other liquid as droplets, or even ultramicroscopic size.
• In most emulsion, one of the liquids is water and the other liquid is oil or
fat.
• The term oil or fat represent the organic substances insoluble in water.
• The type of emulsion that results on agitation of two liquids depends on
the relative proportion of the two in the mixture.
• In order to stabilize an emulsion a third substance known as an
emulsifying agent is added.
• The emulsifying agent (emulsifier) is a surface-active substance to make
an emulsion, which is both fat and water-soluble. It helps the dispersed
phase to uniformly distributed in the continuous phase or dispersion
medium.
• Natural Emulsifying Agents: Acacia, Tragacanth, etc.
• Synthetic Emulsifying Agents: Polysorbate 20, Polysorbate 80, Sodium
lauryl sulfate(SLS), Sorbitan laurate, Sorbitan stearate, etc.
• Hint: Curd is prepared from milk by following a few simple steps. It can be prepared at home easily. The process by which
milk is converted into curd is known as fermentation.
• Curd is generally prepared from the milk. The process of making curd from milk is actually simple. It requires the following
steps:
• * First, the milk is heated to boil for a few minutes. In this process, the extra water present in the milk gets evaporated and
the milk gets thickened a bit.
• * Then, the milk is allowed to cool to the room temperature.
• * Then one spoon of curd is added to the milk and mixed very well. This curd acts as a precursor.
• * Then, it is kept overnight so that the entire milk is converted into curd.
• Now, a very important chemical change occurs during this conversion process. This is an irreversible chemical change
because once the milk is converted into curd, the curd cannot be transformed back into milk.
• The process by which the milk is converted into curd is called fermentation.
• * Curd contains bacteria called ‘lactobacillus’. When one spoon of curd is added to the milk (the precursor curd), the
lactobacillus multiplies itself inside the milk.
• * Now, milk has two major types of proteins: whey protein and casein protein. When cheese is prepared from milk, the
whey protein is found in the water part and the casein protein is found in the cheese part. The casein protein is the globular
form of protein of milk.
• * During the process of fermentation, a chemical reaction occurs between the lactic acid bacteria and the casein protein of
the milk.
• * At first, the lactobacillus bacteria utilize their enzymes to produce ATP from lactose. During this process, lactic acid is
generated as a by-product.
• * Now, the lactic acid reacts with the casein protein of milk and denatures the protein. As a result, the tertiary and
quaternary structures of the globular protein are broken and the globular protein is converted into a fibrous protein (simple
chain protein).
• * This fibrous protein starts providing a thick texture to the milk and coagulation of the protein occurs as well. As a result,
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the milk is converted into curd.