uses of mixtures in everyday life
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uses of mixtures in everyday life
What are 5 uses of mixtures?
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This is a fairly broad question, so I don’t know if you want specific examples or broad ones. So I’ll give broad ones and you can easily come up with specifics.
1: Mixtures are useful when you want to combine elements of multiple materials into one product. I.E. you want to rehydrate AND replenish electrolytes so you mix salt in water (or buy Brondo.)
2: Mixtures allow you to dilute a pure ingredient into a product with less ingredient per unit volume. I.E. mixing ethanol with water gives you alcohol that doesn’t make your throat feel like fire when you drink it.
3: Mixtures can be useful for obtaining desirable physical properties. I.E. you mix nitroglycerin with diatomaceous earth and you wind up with a relatively stable stick of dynamite as opposed to just nitroglycerin which can explode if you change the thermostat too quickly.
4: Mixtures are a useful tool for teaching dimensional analysis since classifying them in terms of their concentration of ingredients, density, and other physical properties is typically required to use them in any meaningful way.
5: Mixtures are good for demonstrating physical relationships between different types of chemicals based on things such as differences in polarity, surface energy, density, and other key physical properties. I.E. stable Mixtures vs unstable (water and salt =stable whereas water and oil = unstable)
Mixtures are constituted by more than one kind of pure form of matter, known as a substance. A substance cannot be separated into other kinds of matter by any physical process. We know that dissolved sodium chloride can be separated from water by the physical process of evaporation. However, sodium chloride is itself a substance and cannot be separated by physical process into its chemical constituents. Similarly, sugar is a substance because it contains only one kind of pure matter and its composition is the same throughout.
Soft drink and soil are not single substances. Whatever the source of a substance may be, it will always have the same characteristic properties.
Therefore, we can say that a mixture contains more than one substance.
They mixed large amounts of sugar into the concrete, slowing down the setting process, and allowing them time to clear up the spill. Mixtures and solutions are a common occurrence in our everyday lives. They are the air we breathe, the food and drink we consume and the fabrics we wear.
Most of the food we eat is a combination of different things. Rarely do we eat only one ingredient. For example, we can eat plain chicken, but why not mix it with a little seasoning? Here are more examples of mixtures as they relate to one of American’s favorite pastimes: eating.
✨Oil and water
✨Lemon juice and tea
✨Honey and tea
✨Milk and chocolate
✨Coffee and cream
✨Cream and sugar
✨Flour and butter
✨Cereal and milk
✨Oatmeal and raisins
✨Flour and milk
✨Orange juice and champagne
✨Sugar and water
✨Sugar and tea
✨Tonic water and lime juice
✨Soda and vanilla syrup