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Explain about protective action of colloid.

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1. Lyophobic sols are precipitated readily even with small amount of electrolytes. But they are stabilised by the addition of small amount of lyophillic colloid.

2. A small amount of gelatine sol is added to gold sol to protect gold sol.

3. Gold number is a measure of protecting power of a colloid, Gold number is defined as the number of milligrams of hydrophillic colloid that will just prevent the precipitation of 10ml of gold sol on the addition of imi of 10% NaG solution. Smaller the gold number, greater the protective power.

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