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Yes, colloids scatter light. Colloids are mechanical mixtures; all mechanical mixtures scatter light. Solutions are the only mixtures that do not scatter light.

The scattering of light by mixtures is known as the Tyndall effect, btw.

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What properties do colloids and suspensions have that a solution does not have?

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What property do colloids and suspensions have that a solution does have?

they are able to scatter light


What property do colloids and suspensions have that solutions does not have?

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A colloid has properties of both suspensions and?

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Can mixtures be classified as solutions suspensions or colloids?

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Does a colloid block light?

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What is one property of a suspension that is different from that of a sulotion or a colloid?

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The scattering of visible light in all directions by colloids or suspensions is?

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What Mixtures are by comparing the sizes of particles in them?

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Is tyndall effect observed in true solution?

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