IMAT Compounds and elements questions

67 questions · Chemistry

The difference between elements, compounds and mixtures, and how to tell them apart by composition and properties.

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  1. 1IMAT Doutor

    A colourless liquid is heated and separates into two liquids that boil at different temperatures, each of which is then found to be pure. The original liquid was:
    1. AImpossible to classify from this evidence, since both liquids are colourless like the original
    2. BA mixture, because distillation separates by boiling point without breaking bonds
    3. CA compound, because it broke into two substances when heated to its boiling point
    4. DAn element, since each of the two liquids obtained was found to be pure
    5. EAn allotrope, since both liquids came from the same original substance
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