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Milk is a colloidal system of the type:

  1. Awater droplets dispersed in fat (water in oil emulsion)
  2. Bgas dispersed in liquid
  3. Cfat droplets dispersed in water (oil in water emulsion)
  4. Dsolid dispersed in liquid

Answer: C

Milk consists of tiny liquid fat globules dispersed in water, stabilised by the protein casein. It is therefore an oil-in-water emulsion.
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