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A compound is a combination of elements chemically combined. Briefly explain why a beaker containing sand and water is a mixture although sand itself is a pure substance. Because it's a combination of two or more substances. ... Briefly explain why a compound has characteristic properties
Answer: Because of the arrangement of atoms in a compound.
Explanation:
A compound is defined as the chemical specie which is formed by the combination of two or more different type of atoms. For Example: [tex]H_2O,O_2[/tex] etc...
A compound has different physical and chemical properties than corresponding elements because of change in identity. For Example: Hydrogen and oxygen are gases, but the compound formed by the combination of these two that is water is liquid.
In a chemical compound, elements are combined in a fixed ratio of their masses.
Hence, a compound has characteristic property because of the arrangement of atoms in a compound
