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Surface Chemistry

Question
CBSEENCH12006618

What are micelles? How do they differ from ordinary colloidal particles ? Give two examples of micelles forming substances.

Solution

Answer:

When soap molecule are present in water the molecules arrange themselves in the form of culster in such a manner that their hydrophobic ends are away from the water molecules and their hydrophillic or ionic end are towards the water molecules.
This is known as micelle formation and the cluster that is formed is called as micelle.
micelle system behaves as a true solution in low concentration and as colloidal solution as high concentration.