Is muddy water a mixture element or a compound?

Answer 1

Muddy river water is a mixture of different materials. The moving river keeps it muddy. If the water stops moving, the muddy material will precipitate and settle to the bottom.

Answer 2

It's a suspension. It's not a compound because you can strain the mud out of the water with a coffee filter. If it was a compound, the element "Mud" would bond at the atomic level with the element "Water" and you'd need extreme measures--reagents, atom smashers, like that--to get them apart.

It is indeed a mixture, a solution if you will.

Answer 3

Muddy water is a mixture compound because it contains water and clay or any other soil. It does not consist of only one element such as plain water or pure clay.

Answer 4

uddy water is a compound since it is a combo of water and mudd.