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At high concentration of soap in water soap behaves as a

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Important Questions on Surface Chemistry

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Match the following:

  List-I   List-II
  Type of Colloid   Phase in medium
(A) Aerosol (I) Solid in solid
(B) Emulsion (II) Liquid in solid
(C) Foam (III) Gas in liquid
(D) Gel (IV) Solid in gas
    (V) Liquid in liquid

The correct answer is

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In which of the sols, the colloidal particles are with negative charge?
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Which of the following is not a homogeneous mixture?
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Critical Micelle concentration for a soap solution is 1.5×10-4 mol L-1. Micelle formation is possible only when the concentration of soap solution in mol L-1 is
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Match List I with List II :
    List-I                                  List-II

Example of colloids            Classification
(a) Cheese                   (i) dispersion of liquid in liquid
(b) Pumice stone         (ii) dispersion of liquid in gas
(c) Hair cream             (iii) dispersion of gas in solid
(d) Cloud                     (iv) dispersion of liquid in solid

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

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Match the following:

(i) Foam (a) smoke
(ii) Gel (b) cell fluid
(iii) Aerosol (c) jellies
(iv) Emulsion (d) rubber
  (e) froth
  (f) milk
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An ionic micelle is formed on the addition of:
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Under ambient conditions, which among the following surfactants will form micelles in aqueous solution at lowest molar concentration?
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The aerosol is a kind of colloid in which
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A colloidal system consisting of a gas dispersed in a solid is called a/an:
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Tyndall effect is more effectively shown by:
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When silver nitrate solution is added to potassium iodide solution then the sol produced is:
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Identify the correct molecular picture showing what happens at the critical micellar concentration (CMC) of an aqueous solution of a surfactant

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Molar conductivity m  of aqueous solution of sodium stearate, which behaves as a strong electrolyte, is recorded at varying concentration(c) of sodium stearate. Which one of the following plots provides the correct representation of micelle formation in the solution?

(Critical micelle concentration (CMC) is marked with an arrow in the figures.)
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When a sulphur sol is evaporated sulphur is obtained. On mixing with water sulphur sol is not formed. The sol is