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What are the properties of suspension?


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These are the properties or important features of suspensions:

  1. Heterogeneous nature: Suspension is a cloudy heterogeneous mixture.
  2. Particle Size: solute particles are of size of order 10-5 m (larger than 100 nanometres)
  3. Visibility: The particles can be seen with unaided eye or under simple microscope. Particles scatter a beam of light passing through it, so the path is visible.
  4. Sedimentation: The larger particles have a tendency to settle down while the very fine particles remain suspended in the medium.
  5. Separation by filtration: Larger particles of suspension can be filtered out from the fluid medium.

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