Question

As you pass a magnet over a blackish-yellow powder on a glass plate, black particles separate from the powder and become attached to the magnet. After a few passes of the magnet over the powder nothing but a yellow powder remains in the glass plate. The original blackish-yellow powder was:


an element

a compound

a mixture

a solution

Answer 1

a mixture

Answer 2

if it were an element it would all move with magnet, also a compound and solution (solid solution) but mixture you can separate by any mean appropriate.