The negative sixth power of a counterion's charge determines the CCC of these systems, according to the Schulze-Hardy rule.
The negative sixth power of a counterion's charge determines the CCC of these systems, according to the Schulze-Hardy rule. A critical parameter for these systems is proportional to the square root of permittivity times temperature over density times ionic strength. A model for these thermodynamically unstable, kinetically stable, systems proposes they have electrostatic repulsions from a shell of mobile ions which form a (*) double layer. Peptization stabilizes these systems, though, at high separations, they also have local minima in energy due to flocculation. Blue light is strongly reflected by them in the Tyndall effect. For 10 points, name these systems in which particles are dispersed in another medium, which include sols, gels, and emulsions.
The negative sixth power of a counterion's charge determines the CCC of these systems, according to the Schulze-Hardy rule.
colloids [prompt on dispersions; prompt on emulsions; prompt on gels; prompt on sols or aerosols; prompt on foams]