What are associated colloids or micelles?

Explanation

Certain substances like soaps and detergents belaive as electrölytes at low concentration. How ever, at ligh concentration they constitute colioidal sols, which are known as associated colloids The colloidal behaviōur of such substạnces is due to the formation of aggregates or clusters in solutions. Such aggregated particles are known as micelles. Thus, micelle may.be defined as the cluster or aggregated particles formed by association colloids in solutions.

Micelles are genęrally formed by the specific type of molecules which have lyophilic as well as lyophobic ends. Such molecules are known as sur" face active molecules or surfactant molecules. Sodium ofeate .C_17 H_3 COO^- Na^+. (one of the soaps) is a typical example of such type of molecule. The long hydrocarbon part of oleate radical