Compounds and Mixtures

OK, today I'm gonna talk about compounds and mixtures. Now it is VERYYY confusing, but with my help, hopefully, you can remember it because, It's Not Rocket Science :)

First off, I'm gonna talk about how compounds and mixtures are different from each other. Mixtures are created through PHYSICAL changes, where has compounds are created by chemical reactions.

on the left is a mixture, and on the right is a compound

COMPOUNDS:
OK, so a compound is made when atoms of 2 or more elements come together or bond in a chemical reaction. one example, water. Water is made up of two hydrogen atoms and oxygen.

Now you  may be wondering, well hydrogen does't look like that, and oxygen certainly doesn't either! Well I can answer that thought- Compounds don't look anything like they did before when they were separated, or in other words, their look changes, unlike a mixture (but we'll get into that later) and it makes it very difficult to separate the 2. but there are some clever ways to do so 
1. Distillation and
2. Evaporation

MIXTURES:

To make a mixture, you blend two or more elements without combining them chemically. Weird right? And unlike a compound, which changes its appearance, mixtures keep their original properties. 

 Like in the picture above, the two ingredients are being mixed, but they are the same thing if you separated them. Lets say the brown is chocolate (which it probably is) and the white is vanilla. If you mixed them together, you would taste chocolate and vanilla. Now lets say we somehow pulled the two separate. The chocolate would still have the same properties, and so would the vanilla. 
 same with this parfait. all the ingredients are MIXED together, but you can tell they haven't changed based on the flavor.
Solids, Liquids, and Gasses, can all be blended into heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures. 
Homogeneous Mixtures-
A bottle of salt water contains salt obviously and water (again obviously) but no matter how hard you look, no matter if you have 20-20 vision, you will never see the salt crystals in the water.                       TRY BELOW  

                                       
See its impossible! 

Heterogeneous Mixtures-
a good examples of a heterogeneous mixtures are salad dressings.   as seen in this picture, you CAN see the little parts of the dressing in it. its the opposite for the salt water. So look at it real close and that disappointing feeling of not being able to see the salt crystals will fade when you can see the clumps of oil and pieces of pepper/ herbs floating in the vinegar.  




OK i'm done. I hope you guys learned something new today!! come back ever Monday/Sunday for a new post! I'm not sure what the next topic will be yet, i haven't asked yet.\
oh whale  ,
 

pictures:

1st pic Matter
Mixtures
H2o
blended
parfait
laughing smurfs
salt water
salad dressing