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Why us an element considered a pure substance

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Elements are pure substances because elements are always made up of same kind of particles.

Example:- pure Iron rod (iron is an element)is made up of many similar Iron atoms.

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Hey there!!

An elements is called a pure substance because it is composed of only one kina of atoms in a fix proportion.

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