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Is soil in water a suspension?

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No. Seawater is a solution, because the salt dissolves into the water. Unless you are referring to the dirt or fish feces or various other things in the ocean... So the salt is not, the other particles are. A better example would be muddy water, to avoid confusion.

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no table is not salt it is solid and its molecules are tightly packed with each other and water is liquit and it can attain the shafe of container because itz molecules are not so tightly packed with each other

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Yes, soil in water is a suspension. Soil doesn't dissolve.

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Water or any other liquid is called a suspension if it has undissolved particles of another substance floating in it.

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Ocean water is a suspension because contain many insoluble impurities suspended.

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No.

Salt water is a solution.

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Yes it is

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