Is pizza a compound or element?
What type of matter is black coffee?
In chemistry, a pure substance is defined as something that is composed of only one type of particle. This means that pure substances are either elements or compounds. Everything else is a mixture. Now, coffee is neither an element nor a compound, so it is not a pure substance.
What type of element is pizza?
Is pizza a homogeneous mixture or a heterogeneous mixture? Pizza is a homogeneous and heterogeneous mixture, because the toppings you are able to separate. You aren’t able to separate the ingredients in the sauce or the dough.
If you consider the finished drink, then black coffee probably seems homogenous, and indeed much of it is composed of water and compounds that are water soluble, but it does also contain small amounts of terpenoids such as cafestol which are not water soluble, and therefore make black coffee a very dilute dispersion.
Is Lucky Charms a compound or element?
No, pizza is not a compound. The elements that make up pizza, its components (cheese, crust, sauce, toppings) are not chemically bonded to each other. There are definitely components of pizza that become compounds themselves after the cooking process (the crust and sauce, for example). But pizza as a substance is not.
