Vocabulary #6

Mixture: two or more parts blended together yet keeping their own properties and not turning into a new substance.

Solution: a mixture in which substances are completely blended so that the properties are the same throughout and the substances stay blended.

Suspension:  a mixture of substances that separate upon standing.

Colloid: particles (or drplets) large enough to block out light spread troughout another substance.

Emulsion: a liquid spread through another light.

Aerosol: liquid drops or solid particles spread through a gas.

Gel: a solid spread through a liquid.

Foam: a gas spread through a liquid or solid.