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What term is used to describe a combination of two or more elements?

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According to the definition of compounds, two or more elements combine together chemical to form a new substance called compound.

When two or more substances (element or compounds) react together to combine and form a new product, which is a compound with new properties. They synthesize to form a new substance, hence it is called a synthesis reaction. Example: C + O 2 → C O 2 C+O_2\ →\ CO_2 C+O2 → CO2.

A mixture is the physical combination of two or more substances in which the identities are retained and are mixed in the form of solutions, suspensions and colloids.

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