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Is silk a compound or element?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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8y ago

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its a mixture as we can separate it by chromatography

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13y ago

Silk is the mixture of tiny rocks,soil, and mud. and if yhu want proff i got this frm mi textbook.

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16y ago

Cotton is a natural cellulose fiber. Cellulose can be considered to be a compound sinces it is a polysaccharide of glucose sugars. All natural, untreated cotton fibers would have to be considered to be a mixture since it would undoubtedly contain impurities from either the soil pieces of the cotton plant itself.

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12y ago

Chemists usually regard elements, compounds, and mixtures as mutually exclusive categories of matter. However, a compound could be considered a mixture by someone who uses a less restrictive definition for "mixture", because a compound contains more than one kind of atoms. In that instance, compounds would be considered a subset of the set "mixtures", so that a compound could be a mixture.

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9y ago

It is a natural protein and so is a compound, not a mixture.

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12y ago

cotton is a elementi think

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14y ago

It's a mixture.

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14y ago

i think its a compound but im not sure

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8y ago

Silk is a compound.

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it is either a compound or a colloid

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