A mixture is created when two or more different substances are physically combined and can be separated back into its original substances.
Examples of mixtures are:
a bowl of different kinds of candy, a pile of different kinds of leaves, steel, sugar syrup
There are two types of mixtures
heterogeneous mixtures look like their distinct components (a bowl of different kinds of candy or a pile of different kinds of leaves can be sorted into groups consisting of the same type of candy or leaves)
homogeneous mixtures look like only one component (metal alloys are usually made of a metal and non-metallic substance—steel is made from iron and carbon, sugar syrup is made from a solution of sugar in water)
