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How colloids can made to settle?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 1/21/2023

Colloidal particles have ab electrical charge that will repel all other similarly charged colloidal particles. However, these charged particles will attract particles of opposite charge. Therefore, a negative colloid can be made to coagulate (begin to settle out) by adding to it positively charged particles.

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