Element, Compound and Mixture

Q. What is an Element?

Any individual type of atom that is used to make a material is known as element. A single atom of any material for example an atom of Hydrogen is called as element.

For example, if we look at the periodic table it says: Periodic Table of Elements and there you can see the first element is H (Hydrogen) which shows the mass and atomic number of a single atom of hydrogen.

There fore, we can say that

a single atom of any material is known as element.

Q. What is Compound?

Two or more elements chemically joined together makes a compound. When we take two different elements and chemically combine them that makes a new element that is known as Compound.