Why is water a compound and not an element or mixture?

Answer 1

Water is a compound with the chemical formula H2O.

It is not an element because it consists of the elements hydrogen and oxygen covalenly bonded to each other. It can be broken down into its constituent elements.

It is also not a mixture because the elements are chemically combined with chemical bonds formed.

Answer 2

Water is an compound of the 2 hydrogen and one o oxygen that's why it is called compound and the element means which exist only one atom eXAMPLE OXYGEN is element and oxygen dioxyed is compound

Answer 3

Something that is a mixture can be separated out into its components by physical means.

The Hydrogen and Oxygen in water are bonded together as one unit. They can not be separated apart physically; water is therefore a compound not a mixture.

Note that water vapour is also a compound, the physical state of a compound does not alter the fact that it is a compound.

Answer 4

Water is a compound because it is composed of two different elements, hydrogen and oxygen, chemically bonded together in a fixed ratio (H2O). This molecular structure distinguishes it from elements, which are made of only one atom type, and mixtures, which are physical combinations of different substances that can be present in varying proportions.

Answer 5

Water is a compound because it COMBINATION of Hydrogen atoms and Oxygen atoms. They are combined cavalently, (electron sharing).

Water is NOT an element , because it is a COMBINATION of two elements. viz. hydrogen and oxygen .

Water is NOT a mixture, because electrons would NOT be chared in a mixture.

Hydrogen and Oxygen gases would just remain as gases.

The chemical formula for water is ' H2O' . This tells us that there are two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. Structurally they are combined as 'H-O-H '.

Possible chemical names for 'WATER' are ' Hydrogen Oxide', Dihydrogen monoxide'. However, names like these are never used. Water's name in science, like everywhere else , is just 'WATER'.

Answer 6

Water is called a compound but not a mixture as it is made up of two molecules of hydrogen and one molecule of oxygen in a fixed ratio of 2:1.

Answer 7

An element is made out of one kind of atoms. Water is made from more than one kind--hydrogen and oxygen--so it's a compound.

Answer 8

because a mixture has multiple atom parts that are different and a compound is only one group of atoms which are the same and water only has one group