The slow oozing out of liquid from a gel on standing is called:

Aelectrophoresis
Bsyneresis
Cpeptization
Dimbibition

Answer: B

Syneresis (weeping) is the spontaneous release of liquid from a gel on standing, as the gel network contracts. Imbibition is the opposite process, swelling by taking up liquid.

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