Author: Daniel Smithson

If you love doing experiment in the chemistry lab or microbiology lab, you must be familiar with alcohol. Alcohol has various functions in the laboratory from sterilization, gram staining, to DNA extractions. Now you probably are wondering about what type of matter an alcohol is. Is alcohol an element, compound, or mixture? Alcohol is a…

Salt is an important thing in the kitchen. If you love food or cooking, you must be very familiar with the look or taste of salt. Now, you might be wondering, to which category does a salt belong in science? Is salt an element, compound, or mixture? Salt (Sodium Chloride) is a compound because it…

Air is probably one of the most underrated matter in our lives. Even we often take it for granted. Just because we don’t actually ‘see’ it, doesn’t mean it’s not there. Of course it’s there. And it matters a lot in our daily life (I mean, we need air to breathe in right?). Now if…

Gold is a beautiful matter that you can find in jewelry. In science, you can classify matters according to the physical property of it. Now you might be wondering, to which category does gold belong? Is gold an element, compound, or mixture? Pure gold is an element because it only consists of 1 type of…