explain why hydrogen and oxygen are considered as element whereas water is compound???
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explain why hydrogen and oxygen are considered as element whereas water is compound???
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Elements are substances that exists alone in nature with only one type of atom and cannot be broken down into simpler substance such as oxygen and gold.
Compounds are two or more substances, with more thanone atom, held together by chemical bonds. Examples are hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
Therefore, hydrogen and oxygen are elements as they cannot be broken down any further. water is a compound because it is a combination of hydrogen and oxygen chemically-bonded together.
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Hydrogen and oxygen contain only one kind of atom, so they are called element. water is made up two different atoms or molecules - hydrogen and oxygen, in a fixed ratio ,so it is called compounds.
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