can you please explain why its a solution or a heterogeneous mixture in simple terms? thanks!When copper powder and zinc powder are ground together...is the result a solution or a heterogeneous mixture?
It would be a mixture just like mixing salt and pepper, unless you heated them and blended into an alloy. Copper and zinc won't react with each other, unless there is a lot of heat or some solvent involved to form a chemical bond.When copper powder and zinc powder are ground together...is the result a solution or a heterogeneous mixture?
When you grind the solids together, the result is a heterogeneous mixture. The components are mixed, but the individual particles still retain their own identity. This mixture will have the properties of both copper and zinc, because both individual metals are present.
In a solution, the components are completely mixed with each other, and they take on a new identity. The properties change as well. Brass has different properties than copper or zinc does, because they have interacted.
Hope that helps a bit.
It is a heterogenous mixture because the small peices are still uniquely copper and zinc.
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