Are Colloids Solid or Liquid and What Modulus is Used to Measure Them?

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are they solid/ liquid?
bulk modulus or shear modulus to be used?
 
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I don't know. What?
 
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hmmm they are not a solid or a liquid. It's a classification of a mixture, not the state of the substance. Thus, a collid is mostly comprised of a liquid, while it has solid particle actually dispersed in it, no in the liquid form.

Now with moduls to use...that's a pure physics question and not certain. I would imagine it would be bulk, with some minor corrections.

pete

(you know that most water in the ocean and our rivers are colloids)
 
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A colloid is a mixture of a gas with a solid or liquid dispersed in it. (FOG) Also a liquid with solid dispersed. If you can shine a beam of light through it and see the beam it is a colloid.
 
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PeteGt said:
(you know that most water in the ocean and our rivers are colloids)
Are they? Colloids don't sediment. It is supposed to be a stable mixture of substances in different phases.
 
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Whats the scientific term for colloids?
 
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