Hydrocolloids are extremely versatile and are used for many other purposes including:
(a) Production of pseudoplasticity (i.e. fluidity under shear) at high temperatures to ease mixing and processing followed by thickening on cooling,
(b) Liquefaction on heating followed by gelling on cooling,
(c) Gelling on heating to hold the structure together (thermogelling), and
(d) Production and stabilization of multiphase systems including film