What is a suspension in chemistry?

Answer 1

A #"suspension"# is an inhomogeneous mixture of a solvent and FINE particles.

or to quote wiki...

#"a mixture in which particles are dispersed throughout the bulk"# #"of a fluid."#

….and a course a fluid could be either a liquid or a gas.

Most of the time, chemists try to avoid suspensions, given that the SMALL particle size, makes the suspension hard to separate, and the particles occlude a lot of solvent molecules.

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Answer 2

Serenity Allen

A suspension in chemistry refers to a heterogeneous mixture in which solid particles are dispersed in a liquid or gas medium. Unlike solutions, where particles are dissolved and evenly distributed at the molecular level, suspensions contain particles that are larger and can be seen with the naked eye. These particles do not dissolve but instead remain suspended in the medium due to the constant motion of the particles and the surrounding medium. Over time, the suspended particles may settle out due to gravity, leading to the separation of phases in the mixture.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.