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Question
Seawater tastes salty due to the dissolved salt. the salinity (the proportion of salts in water) of some water bodies Lonar lake - 7.9 %, Pacific Ocean 3.5%, Mediterranean sea - 3.8%, Dead sea - 33.7%. Explain two characteristics of the mixture from the above information.
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Solution
Characteristics of mixtures from above information are:
- Constituent substances of a mixture are two or more elements or compounds.
- The proportion of constituent substances in a mixture can be variable.
- The properties of constituent substances are retained in the mixture.
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