Question

Flour, salt, sugar, eggs, and baking powder are ingredients for baking a cake, when you mix these ingredients, you get batter. Is batter a mixture or a compound? The batter is put into an oven to bake into a cake. Is the cake a mixture or a compound? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

If there is no chemical reaction that has taken place or taking place in the substance then it is a mixture and if the reaction takes and a product is formed then it is a compound. A substance is a mixture of its components that can be separated by the physical process and a substance is a compound if the components cannot be separated by the physical process.

Complete answer:
In the universe, there are many types of substances and these are categorized as atoms, molecules, elements, compounds, and mixtures.
So, the batter made for the cake by mixing flour, salt, sugar, eggs, and baking powder is a mixture. This due to the fact that:
During its production, no chemical reaction occurs.
Its characteristics are the characteristics of the compounds.
Their components can be by mass of some proportion.
The physical methods of its components can be used to distinguish.
But the cake formed when the batter is baked in the oven is a compound due to the opposite explanations to the above mentioned. As the components used in the formation of the cake cannot be separated into flour, eggs, sugar, etc.
So, the batter is a mixture and the cake is a compound.

Note:
The compound can be converted into its constituents only by a chemical process, no physical process can convert the constituents of the compound into molecules or elements.