Chemistry Solution What do the following have in common: the air you breath, the water in the oceans, the fluid in your body, and the brass in a button? Although they may sound unrelated, all of these examples describe mixtures. Very few of the materials you encounter everyday are pure substances. Most are heterogenous mixtures or homogenous mixtures. A pile of pennies and nickels, for example, is a heterogenous, which is characterized by visibly different parts. Lemonade from a mix is homogenous mixture. A homogenous mixture does not have parts that can be distinguished from one another. Unlike coins, lemonade is a solution. Air, ocean wa....

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