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What is the chemical formula of pure milk? What is the chemical reaction taking place when milk combines with salt?
thanks in advance.
thanks in advance.
There isn't a chemical formula for milk as such - it's a mixture of (mostly) water, fats, proteins and 1000s of minor chemicals. It's rather like asking the chemical formula for a cow!What is the chemical formula of pure milk?
Mozzarella?What is the chemical reaction taking place when milk combines with salt?
This is not a chemical reaction, but a physical one. Milk is what is known as a colloid: a physical mixture of two substances where particles of one substance is evenly dispersed in the second substance. In the case of milk, small globules of fat are dispersed throughout a solution of (mostly) water. These fat globules are so small that the gravitational force on them is not enough to counter their tendency to diffuse through the solution. Hence, the fat globules stay suspended in solution indefinitely (for larger particles, such as pulp particles in orange juice, gravity is stronger than diffusion so the pulp particles settle at the bottom of the container if you let it sit in the refrigerator).What is the chemical reaction taking place when milk combines with salt?