Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Mixtures


A homogeneous mixture is a solid, liquid, or gaseous mixture that has the same proportions of its components throughout any given sample.


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Conversely, a heterogeneous mixture has components whose proportions vary throughout the sample.

Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts often used in the sciences and statistics relating to the uniformity in a substance or organism.

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"Homogeneous" and "heterogeneous" are not absolute terms but depend on context and the size of the sample.


In chemistry, a homogeneous suspension of material means that when dividing the volume in half, the same amount of material is suspended in both halves of the substance; however, it might be possible to see the particles under the microscope.





An example of a homogeneous mixture is air.



In physical chemistry and materials science that refers to substances and mixtures which are in a single phase.




This is in contrast to a substance that is heterogeneous.

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