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Is chicken noodle soup a colloid, suspension, or solution?

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The nutrients from he vegetables and the protein from the chicken:)
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They would both best be characterized as a mixture, because neither is anything approaching homogenous. If you mean just the chicken broth part of the soup, that iself might be characterized as a suspension, since it's usually got all kinds of little particles floating around in it, bits of chicken and fat and whatnot. It's not clear, you'll note, and you often get a sediment if you let it sit for a while. A cloudy broth that doesn't settle might be characterized as a colloid -- tiny globs of fat in the water. And a perfectly clear broth might well be a solution, with proteins and salt and so forth simply dissolved in it.
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