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Give reasons for the following.

Medicines are more effective in their colloidal form.

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Because a colloidal medicine has a very small particle size and hence a large surface area, so it is more easily absorbed and assimilated by the body.
Surface Chemistry

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