HOMOGENEOUS
CANNOT BE BROKEN DOWN BY PHYSICAL MEANS
FIXED COMPOSITION AND DEFINITE PROPERTIES
ELEMENT
Annotations:
ONE TYPE OF ATOM
CANNOT BE DECOMPOSED BY PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL METHOD
COMPOUND
Annotations:
2 OR MORE ELEMENTS COMBINED IN DEFINITE PROPORTIONS
CAN BE SEPERATED BY CHEMICAL METHODS
MIXTURE
Annotations:
CAN BE PHYSICALLY SEPERATED
COMBINATION OF 2 OR MORE SUBSTANCES IN VARIABLE PROPORTIONS
EACH SUBSTANCE RETAIN ITS OWN CHEMICAL IDENTITY
CAN BE SEPARATED INTO ITS COMPONENTS BY PHYSICAL METHIDS
HOMOGENEOUS
Annotations:
UNIFORM COMPOSITION
SOLUTIONS
UNIFORM COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES THROUGHOUT A GIVEN SAMPLE, BUT MAY VARY FROM ONE SAMPLE TO THE OTHER.
(ALL DISSOLVED SOLUTIONS ARE THE ONLY PART OF THE HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURE)
HETEROGENEOUS
Annotations:
NON-UNIFORM PROPERTIES THROUGHOUT A SAMPLE
COMPONENT RETAIN THEIR IDENTITY AND PHASE BOUNDARIES EXIST