EVERY SUBSTANCE IN THE UNIVERSE IS MADE UP OF BUILDING BLOCK KNOWN AS ATOMS. THERE ARE ONLY 118 ATOMS BUT CAN BE ARRANGED IN DIFFERENT COMBINATION TO CREATE COUNTLESS TYPES OF DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES. ELEMENTS ARE SUBSTANCES THAT ARE MADE UP OF JUST ONE TYPE OF ATOM, THERE ARE ONLY 118 ATOMS. 92 OF THEM ARE NATURAL AND 26 ARE MAN MADE.
ELEMENTS CAN BE BROADLY CLASSIFIED IN TO METALLIC AND NON-METALLIC. METALLIC ARE TEND TO BE SHINY, CONDUCT HEAT AND ELECTRICITY, CAN BE BENT AND DRAWN IN TO WIRES. NON-METALLIC TEND TO BE DULL, DO NOT CONDUCT HEAT OR ELECTRICITY, BREAK OR CRUMBLE WHEN YOU BEND THEM (BRITTLE)
In chemistry, a compound is a substance that results from a combination of two or more different chemical element s, in such a way that the atom s of the different elements are held together by chemical bonds that are difficult to break.
MANY
OF THE SUBSTANCES USED EVERY DAY ARE NOT SIMPLY CLEMENTS OR COMPOUNDS
BUT ARE MIXTURES OF ELEMENTS AND COMPOUNDS. AIR FOR EXAMPLE IS A MIXTURE
OF THE ELEMENT OXYGEN AND NITROGEN WITH COMPOUNDS SUCH AS WATER VAPOUR,
CARBON DIOXIDE AND CARBON MONOXIDE. IN MIXTURES THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS
THAT THEY ARE NOT CHEMICALLY JOINED
Rubrica: : HERE IS A GOOD EXAMPLE EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENCE
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TYPES OF MIXTURES
GASEOUS MIXTURES
WHEN 2 GASES MIX TOGETHER
THE PARTICLES OF GAS ARE SEPARATED BY LARGE DISTANCES
2. LIQUID MIXTURESWHEN 2 LIQUIDS MIX TOGETHER 3. ALLOYS
ARE MIXTURE OF METALS OR NON METALLS
The word "atom" is derived from the Greek word "atomos", meaning indivisible.
The philosopher Democritus (460-370 B.C.) believed that matter was composed
of fundamentally indivisible particles, called "atomos".
Dalton's atomic theory of 1803:
Each element is composed of extremely small particles called atoms
All atoms of a given element are identical; the atoms of different elements
are different and have different properties (including different masses)
Atoms of an element are not changed into different types of atoms by chemical
reactions; atoms are neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions
Compounds are formed when atoms of more than one element combine; a given
compound always has the same relative number and kind of atoms.
Atoms are the basic building blocks of matter; they are the smallest
units of an element:
An element is composed of only one kind of atom
In compounds the atoms of two or more elements combine in definite
arrangements
Mixtures do not involve the specific interactions between elements
found in compounds, and the elements which comprise the mixture can be
of varying ratios