A suspensoid is a type of colloidal system in which fine particles are dispersed within a liquid medium, creating a stable suspension. These particles can be solid, liquid, or gas, and they remain suspended due to Brownian motion and other forces that prevent them from settling. Suspensoids are commonly encountered in various fields, including pharmaceuticals, food science, and environmental science, where they can affect the properties and behavior of materials.
Gelatin is a common suspensoid that is readily precipitated by salts like ammonium sulfate. This process is used in food science and biochemistry to separate and purify proteins.
Suspensoids are easily precipitated by salts because the presence of salts in a solution reduces the solubility of the suspensoid particles, leading to their aggregation and precipitation. Salts can cause destabilization by neutralizing the surface charges on the particles, promoting their coagulation and settling out of the suspension.
Emulsoids are reversible sols that form reversible gels, meaning they can revert back to sol form with the addition of suitable solvents or conditions. Suspensoids, on the other hand, are irreversible as they do not revert back to sol form once gel formation occurs.
Emulsoids form stable foams easily due to their ability to adsorb at interfaces and create a film around the gas bubbles. On the other hand, suspensoids do not form stable foams easily as they lack the ability to form a stable film around the gas bubbles.
The difference between emulsoid and suspension in terms of affinity for solvent is that suspensoids have no affinity for the solvent. They are ready to fall out as soon as a charge is dispensed into the medium.
Because cytoplasm has the proprities of colloidal systems . It consists of solute and solvent. The particles of the solute ranges from 1 to100 nanometer and it is a stable system as solid in liquid called sol.It is a suspensoid