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

[elaine216@hotmail.co]

are they solid/ liquid?
bulk modulus or shear modulus to be used?

 

[Eyesaw]

I don't know. What?

 

[PeteGt]

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)

 

[2Pac]

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.

 

[Monique]

fog, smoke, mayonnaise, they are all colloids. encarta has a nice description: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761555673/Colloid.html

 

[Monique]

(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.

 

[bkvitha]

Whats the scientific term for colloids?

 

[geoffjb]

Whats the scientific term for colloids?

Wow. Old thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloid