2007-03-11 00:56:39 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
They're actually solutions, but let's not get into that.
If I had a hunk of aluminium-magnesium alloy, and i pulled out the smallest but I could, it would be an atom of either aluminium or magnesium. For a compound, the smallest bit would be a molecule of aluminium-magnesium (or whatever name they gave it.)
It isn't a lattice compound, because the 'sea of electrons' doesn't connect the two elements together. There's some really complex chemistry behind why that happens.
2007-03-11 01:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by tgypoi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A compound would be a number of elements chemically bonded together. In an alloy it is more likely to find the majority of the material is one metal with small islands of another metal or even individual atoms scattered throughout.
2007-03-11 09:03:25 · answer #2 · answered by Stuart C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ingredients that make an alloy retain there properties. In a compound the substances combine chemicaaly forming a new substances with new propertie
2007-03-11 10:02:25 · answer #3 · answered by gangico 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.Alloys are mixtures such as soldering,but compounds are two molecules at least such as NaCl table salt.
2007-03-11 09:02:16 · answer #4 · answered by Tuncay U 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because their components are not chemically bonded together. See it as...mixing two hunks of molten metal in a big pot, for instance, and letting it cool. You've not reacted them together, you just mixed them. =)
2007-03-11 09:00:46 · answer #5 · answered by Aidan J 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
because they have bo chemical reaction and their elements are not chemically bounded
2007-03-11 11:02:31 · answer #6 · answered by prettyshinigami 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋