Modern Chemistry, Lesson 155: Colloids

Discusses various types of colloidal systems, including sols, emulsions, gels, and aerosols. The viewer is given the problem of calculating the tremendous increase in surface when a cube, one centimeter on an edge, is cut a million times in each of the three dimensions, giving particles of colloidal size. As a demonstration of a large surface, foam is prepared and used to smother an organic chemical fire which is not extinquished by water.

Sources

  1. Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education) — title, creator, length, description