X-Nico

unusual facts about Colloid


Expedition 2

One of the experiments on EXPRESS Rank No. 2 was the Experiment of Physics of Colloids in Space.


Eli Franklin Burton

From 1904 to 1906 he studied colloids with J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, writing an important monograph on the subject in 1938.

Gold number

More is the gold number less is the protective power of the lyophilic colloid since it means that the amount required is more.It was first used by Zsigmondy.

Lyotropic

Examples are suspensions of rod-like viruses as the Tobacco Mosaic Virus as well as man-made colloidal suspensions of non-spherical colloidal particles.

Siwucha vodka

The name derives from the siwy (ash grey) color of the liquid due to Tyndall effect of the colloid emulsion of residual fusel oil.


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