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How do lyophilic colloids reduce surface tension?
It's given in my textbook that the surface tension of lyophilic/hydrophilic solutions is lower than water.
But my intuition says, since in lyophilic solutions the interaction between a lyophilic ...
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Why are critical micelle concentrations so large?
Dissolving a non-polar molecule in water incurs a free energy cost of about $10 kJ/(mol \cdot nm^2)$ (source: http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?&id=101826)
The entropy gained from ...
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What is the logic behind the terminology lyophilic and lyophobic colloids?
Its given in my text book that-
Colloidal dispersions of starch,rubber,proteins etc are lyophilic colloids whereas colloidal dispersions of metals,sulphides etc are lyophobic in nature.
But even ...
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