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air is a mixture of elements (nitrogen, oxygen, trace amounts of other elemental gases) plus compounds (water vapor, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, CO2)

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Air is a mixture.

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It is a mixture :)

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Is clean air compound mixture element?

Air (clean or dirty) is a mixture, as it contains several different gases.


Is air element or compound or mixture?

Air is a mixture; the properties of the constituents of air (oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide etc.) are not changed, and the mass ratios among them are not as consistent as they would be if air were a compound. On distillation of liquefied air, nitrogen predominantly distills off first, leaving behind oxygen in the liquid form. This is characteristic of a mixture, not of a compound.


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Both are mixtures.


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Air is a gaseous mixture. (It has attributes of a compound because it cannot be separately physically by normal means, only by elaborate centrifuges or cooling.)


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