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carka
Aug 27, 2017

Compounds are pure substances because they have only 1 type of molecule.Homogeneous mixtures are mixtures because they have different types of molecules mixed together,in proportion.

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Let us take an example. Water is a compound because in a glass of (distilled)water there is only one type of molecule throughout. But say in Aqua Regia (3HCl+HNO3 both concentrated),the mixture has 2 different types of molecules mixed together,so it is a homogeneous mixture

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