Home
Class 12
CHEMISTRY
Why does a beam of light on passing thro...

Why does a beam of light on passing through a colloidal solution have visible path ?

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

This is because of scattering of light by colloidal particles and this is known as Tynadall effect.
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • SURFACE CHEMISTRY

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS) QUESTIONA AND NUMERICAL PROBLEMS|11 Videos

  • SURFACE CHEMISTRY

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION BANK (MCQB)|28 Videos

  • SURFACE CHEMISTRY

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT QUESTIONS|22 Videos

  • SOME BASIC CONCEPTS OF CHEMISTRY

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise ULTIMATE PREPARATORY PACKAGE|20 Videos

  • THE CARBON FAMILY

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise Ultimate|11 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

Explain the following observation: a. A beam of light passing through a colloidal solution has a visible path. Passing an electric currenet through a colloidal solution removes colloidal particles from it. c. Ferric hydroxide sol coagulates on addition of potassium sulphate.

When a beam of light is passed through colloidal solution.

When a beam of light is passed through colloidal solution,

DINESH PUBLICATION-SURFACE CHEMISTRY -QUESTION FROM BOARD EXAMINATIONS
  1. What is syneresis or weeping of gels ?

    Text Solution

    |

  2. Explain why dose feeric hydroxide sol get coagulate on addition of sol...

    Text Solution

    |

  3. Why does a beam of light on passing through a colloidal solution have ...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. Milk is an emulsion of fat dispersed in Water. What stabiliser stabili...

    Text Solution

    |

  5. Can the same substance act both as colloid and crystalloid ?

    Text Solution

    |

  6. If a strong beam of light is passed through a colloidal sol place in a...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. Why does clear sky appear blue ?

    Text Solution

    |

  8. Why are lypolhilic colloids more stable than hybrobic colloids ?

    Text Solution

    |

  9. Give one example each of multimolecular and macro-molecular colloids.

    Text Solution

    |

  10. What happens when colloidal solution of fe(OH)(3) and As(2)S(3) are mi...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. What happens when freshly precipitated ferric hydroxide is treated wit...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. Why is pyophobis sol easily congulated as compared to lyophilic sol ?

    Text Solution

    |

  13. Mention two ways by which lyophobic colloids can be coagulated.

    Text Solution

    |

  14. What will happen when a small amount of NaCl solution is added to hydr...

    Text Solution

    |

  15. Why does physisorption decrease with increase in temperature ?

    Text Solution

    |

  16. A synthetic rubber which is resistant to the action of oils gasoline a...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. What is Tyndall Effect?

    Text Solution

    |

  18. What is coagulation process ?

    Text Solution

    |

  19. What is an emulsion ?

    Text Solution

    |

  20. Name two types of adsorption phenmenon.

    Text Solution

    |