Question

The sea water can be classified as a homogeneous as well as heterogeneous mixture. Comment.

Answer 1

Hey mate!! Here is your answer......

A homogeneous is when the solute is uniformly distributed throughout the solvent.

Here in case if sea water ,the salts and certain gases that are uniformly distributed throughout.Thus,making it a homogeneous mixture.

Heterogeneous mixture is just the opposite of that of homogeneous mixture in which the solute is not uniformly distributed.

Sea water has many dissolved impurities.These solid impurities doesn't dissolve that well in water and makes it a heterogeneous mixture.

For this reason we can consider sea water as both a homogeneous and heterogeneous mixture.

I dont know if I am correct or not , but I hope it helped you.

Answer 2

The sea-water contains a mixture of salt and some other bigger size of impurities and a mixture of several gases in seawater. Due to other bigger size of impurities, seawater is classified as a heterogeneous mixture while due to a mixture of several gases and salt in seawater it is classified as homogeneous mixture.