6. Chemical Quantities & Aqueous Reactions
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In this example it says, from the following images identify a solution, suspension, and colloid. So let's do the easy part first. A solution. Remember, a solution is a homogeneous mixture where the solute and solvent have blended perfectly together and you can't tell them apart. The only image that shows this would be option b. Option b is a solution. The solute and solvent have mixed perfectly together, and you can't tell them apart. For the next one here, for a, what do we have? We have our solvent, and then we see these little spheres, these little particles, and these are our solute particles floating around. Alright. So here we would say when we have this going on, this would be a colloid. Because a colloid is a homogeneous mixture with smaller, and we're gonna have smaller size solute particles like we have here. That would mean that C would have to be our suspension. Our suspension is a heterogeneous mixture, we're going to have larger solute particles because they're larger, they're going to settle closer to the bottom. So we'd say A is a colloid, b is a solution, and c is a suspension. That's how we say each one of these, jars or each one of these containers represent.
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