Question

CO2 is an element.
True
False

Answer 1

what do you think for this question?

Answer 2

True?

Answer 3

well an element would be like O or S or Au

Answer 4

CO2 is comprised of 1 C (carbon) and 2 O's (oxygen)

Answer 5

Is that an element

Answer 6

Like can you find CO2 on the periodic table of elements?

Answer 7

Well there's Co

Answer 8

That is cobalt

Answer 9

Remember, you're looking at this:

\(CO_2\), where C is one component and \(O_2\) is another

Answer 10

So the C is carbon, and the O's are oxygen. Although they are found individually on the periodic table, they are a compound because they are chemically bound together

Answer 11

Right. What Brittany is trying to say here is that although C is an element and O is an element ( \(O_2\) is diatomic...but more on that later!), the compound itself cannot be an element because it is comprised of chemically-bonded elements

Answer 12

Does this make sense @AloneS ?

Answer 13

yes it does.

So it be False._.