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Give reasons for the following.

Brownian movement stabilizes colloidal solutions.

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True. Because the continuous zig-zag Brownian motion of the dispersed particles counteracts the force of gravity, the particles do not settle, and the colloid stays stable.
Surface Chemistry

From ISC 2018 Specimen Chemistry Paper 1, question 11(c).