Question

One spoonful of sugar and two spoonful of salt is mixed in a bowl. Will you classify the content of
the bowl as a mixture or compound? Justify your answer with proper reasoning.

Answer 1

Answer:

A mixture is a combination of two or more substances in any proportion. This is different from a compound, which consists of substances in fixed proportions. The substances in a mixture also do not combine chemically to form a new substance, as they do in a compound. Instead, they just intermingle and keep their original properties. The lemonade pictured above is a mixture because it doesn’t have fixed proportions of ingredients. It could have more or less lemon juice, for example, or more or less sugar, and it would still be lemonade.