Question #531b0
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Jul 31, 2017
Well...technically I suppose you could call air a gaseous solution, but personally I wouldn't.....
Explanation:
Whilst some regard air as a "gaseous solution", it would more generally be regarded simply as a "mixture".
The reason is that whilst air is a homogeneous mixture of various gasses, there is virtually no interaction between the atoms/molecules of the various gasses, so there isn't really any value in regarding it as a solution in terms of describing any part of its chemistry. So it is more useful, I believe, to regard air as simply a homogeneous mixture.
Suspension and colloid are both terms that relate to heterogeneous mixtures, (the dispersed phase should be imiscible with the continuous) so doesn't apply to air.
