Role of colloidal soln in medicine and dairy i dustry
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Food and medicines: Colloids have great application in food industries and food stuffs. Many of the food materials which we eat are of colloidal nature. Milk and also many milk products like chees, cream butter etc. are colloids.
In more accurate way, milk is an emulsion (liquid in liquid colloidal system). In milk, butter and fat are dispersed in water. Bread is colloidal system in which air is dispersed in baked dough.
Colloids also have applications in the form of medicines. Colloidal medicines are competitively more effective as they are easily absorbed by the body. That is way many medicines are emulsion.
Some major antibiotics like penicillin and streptomycin are injected in the body in the form of colloidal sol so that they would be absorbed by the body easily.