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In the general field of Colloid Science and more specifically in the area of Polymer Colloids much of our current knowledge on the behaviour of dispersions has been gained from studies on dilute systems. In these dilute systems of low number concentration the particles can move around freely and their motion, the so-called Brownian Motion, is the translational diffusion of the particles. It was examined in some detail experimentally by Perrin (1) and theoretically by Einstein (2) in the early part of the twentieth century. The particles are in complete DISORDER and the essential features are:-
Thermal motion predominates over the effects imposed by interparticle forces giving a random arrangement of particles.
Particles interact mainly by two-body collisions. Simultaneous three-body collisions are rare.
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Ottewill, R.H. (1983). Concentrated Dispersions I. Fundamental Considerations. In: Poehlein, G.W., Ottewill, R.H., Goodwin, J.W. (eds) Science and Technology of Polymer Colloids. NATO ASI Series, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4795-0_12
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