Vocabulary No. 8

Mixture:  two or more parts blended together yet keeping their own properties and not turning into a new substance.

 
 
Solution: a mixture in which substances are completely blended so that the properties are the same throughout  and the bustances stay blended.

 

Suspension:  a mixture of substances that separate upon standing.

 

Colloid:  particles (or droplets) large enough to block out light spread throughout another  substance.

 

Emulsion:  a liquid spread through another  liquid.



Aerosol:  liquid drops or solid particles spread through a gas.



Gel:  a solid spread through a liquid



Foam:  a gas spread through a liquid or solid.