Introduction - key forces and potential energy plots - overview

1 Introduction - key forces and potential energy plots - overview 

The colloid stability of a dispersion refers to small particles that do not aggregate (in the practical lifetime of the dispersion), whereas mechanical stability refers to dispersed particles that do not sediment or cream, as discussed in Chapter 8. 

The interaction (potential) energy betwerai macroscopic bodies, V, separated by a distance, H, is delined as  

Introduction to Applied Colloid and Surface Chemistry, First Edition. Georgios M. Kontogeorgis and S0ren Kiil. 2016 John Wiley Sons, Ltd. Published 2016 by John Wiley Sons, Ltd. 

The interparticle force is given by the derivative of the interaction energy  

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