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Is aluminum a compound or element or mixture? - lolitahe69 - 12-06-2021
Aluminum, which is used in soda cans, is an element. A substance that can be broken down into chemically simpler components (because it has more than one element) is a compound. For example, water is a compound composed of the elements hydrogen and oxygen.