Hello all,
As we know that underneath our wild and passionate sides there lurks some wonderful intelligent minds I was wondering if any of you know the answers to my kids homework. I am desperatly trying to help her but being irish am a thick as a plank and have no clue.
These are the questions we are stuck on, even if someone knows a great site we could look at.
4. What is an element, mixture and a compound?
5. What gas is needed for combustion
6. What products are made in the reaction of combustion?
7. What simple test could you do to prove mineral
water is not pure water?
8. WHAT THREE ELEMENTS MAKE UP ALL LIVING THINGS ON EARTH? (could be six)
Thank you people
I'm going to risk complete humiliation here but will edit this post when the correct answers are provided (haha).
4. What is an element, mixture and a compound?
An element is comprised of atoms all of the same type.
5. What gas is needed for combustion
Oxygen.
6. What products are made in the reaction of combustion?
Carbon Dioxide and, err, water?
7. What simple test could you do to prove mineral
water is not pure water?
Boil it away and check for residue.
8. WHAT THREE ELEMENTS MAKE UP ALL LIVING THINGS ON EARTH? (could be six)
Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen.
one out of 5 isn't bad as i did CSE chemistry over 20 years ago!
Element
Pure substances, made up of atoms with the same number of protons.
Mixtures
Mixture of pure substances. Mixtures have the properties of the different substances that make it up. Melt at a range of temperatures and are easy to separate.
Compounds
Pure substances made up more more than 1 compound which have been joined together by a chemical reaction therefore the atoms are difficult to separate. The properties of a compound are different from the atoms that make it up.
Couldn't quickly find an answer for no 7, but there are 2 that I can think of, one boil off a small sample and see if there is a residue (if you look on the side of a mineral/spring water bottle you can see they do this for you, they boil it off at 180º Volvic has a residue of about 110mg/l whereas Evian has about 360mg/l, that's why Evian tastes so chalky and is awful).
The other way is to measure what temprerature the water begins to boil at sea level (1bar/1ata/1atm) hope this helps...
Chris
Thank you so much you wonderful and highly intelligent people, you are indeed most helpful.
Now I can plan for a night of pure passion as I will now have the time !!!!
thats funny, bigbrother style or summit like that
You notice all of the answers purporting to be answers were rom males, it's an ego thing, just like the traditional woman at the side of the road with a car, you might know fuck all about cars, but you'll have a look anyway.
Chris
PS At least I attributed all of the stuff I googled for!