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homo or heter mixtures
Category: Science > Chemistry Asked by: daisy001-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
29 Mar 2005 12:34 PST
Expires: 28 Apr 2005 13:34 PDT Question ID: 502181 |
Is the air in your house a homogenous or a heterogeneous mixture? What evidence have you seen? |
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Re: homo or heter mixtures
From: asllan-ga on 29 Mar 2005 16:28 PST |
I can say that the air in the area where I live and in much industrial areas is not homogenous (heterogenous). The evidence is a long story,but I will give some details: A lot of pollution which produces a lot of SO2,CO2,CO also a lot of other substances that help on increasing the level of air heterogenousity. Traffic pollution is also a huge fact to talk about.... |
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Re: homo or heter mixtures
From: hfshaw-ga on 29 Mar 2005 16:59 PST |
A homogeneous mixture is one consisting of a single phase of uniform composition. (In this context, "phase" means a state of matter, e.g., gas, liquid, or solid. Solids or liquids of different compositions would constitute different phases). Heterogeneous mixtures are mixtures that contain more than one phase or substance. Because the question asks about the air in someone's house, then asllan's comment really doesn't pertain. On the scale of a house, the composition of the air can usually be taken to be the same throughout. There are, however, instances in which the air in a house would be a heterogeneous mixture. Can you think of an example? [Hint: outside atmosphere on a cloudless day is generally considered to be a homogeneous mixture, but the atmosphere on cloudy or foggy day would be a heterogeneous mixture because the atmosphere then consists of a suspension (a special type of mixture) of small liquid water droplets (phase 1) in a gas (phase 2). Do you ever see "clouds" in your house? Do you like hot showers?] |
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Re: homo or heter mixtures
From: asllan-ga on 30 Mar 2005 14:58 PST |
My comment was for my area where I live.I really know the definitions about the mixtures. AIR is a mixture of O2+N2+CO2+H2O+....aerosoles etc. The facts that are described by hfshaw are true. In some moments AIR is homogenous mixture,but in other statements AIR is heterogenous mixture. These two teories can help for solving this problem. This could be all. |
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