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water is considered as a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and not a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen and comment on it

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Wat is considered a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and not a mixture because hydrogen and oxygen have gone through a chemical process to form the compound h2O. A mixture can generally be easily separated whereas a compound must undergo another chemical process to separate its elements. Therefore to separate oxygen and hydrogen from water a chemical process is necessary.