You decide to mix up a pitcher of tea. You put water, tea, sugar and lemons in a pitcher and stir it up. How do you decide if you just created a mixture or a compound?

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Ernesto Fleming

Chemistry

25 December, 09:39

You decide to mix up a pitcher of tea. You put water, tea, sugar and lemons in a pitcher and stir it up. How do you decide if you just created a mixture or a compound?

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Anabella · Answer 1

If you can still easily get the individual substances by evaporation, distillation, crystallization, filtration, decanting, etc then you have created a mixture since the substances would've not been chemically bonded. However, if it's difficult to get the individual substances back by themselves, then you have created a compound meaning the bonds are hard to break.

Jerome Molina · Answer 2

It's a mixture

Explanation:

Because you can still separate the substances because they haven't been chemically bonded. If they had, they would be a compound