A certain skin lotion is a fine mixture of water and various oils. This lotion is cloudy and cannot be separated into oil and wa
ter by filtration. Moreover, its components do not separate when left standing. What type of mixture is it? solution suspension colloid compound NextReset
In the presence of an emulsifying agent, a mixture of oil and water becomes a colloidal dispersion.
Colloidal dispersion (colloid) is a system, in which discrete particles, droplets or bubbles of a dispersed phase (in this case oil), whose size at least in one dimension is in the range from 1 to 1000 nm are distributed in the other, usually continuous phase - dispersion medium (in this case water) differing from the dispersed phase in composition or state of aggregation.
