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Use the Tyndall Effect

shine a light through it. If the light is scattered then it is colloidal.

Both colloids and suspensions are heterogeneous. A solution will not show the beam through it's substance but the colloid will. The particles in the suspension will eventually settle at the bottom, showing that it is NOT a solution.

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