Question

What is the nature of the solution formed by mixing mustard oil and water?

Answer 1

Colloidal solution: It is a mixture in which one substance of which particles are insoluble and microscopically suspended throughout the other substance.

It seems to be a homogeneous mixture but in actuality, it is heterogeneous in nature. It has two components one is the substance that is suspended in the mixture and is known as the dispersed phase and the other component is the dispersing medium into which the dispersed phase is suspended.

Mixing mustard oil and water is a colloidal solution. An emulsion is a colloidal solution in which dispersing phase is mustard oil and dispersing medium is the water.