You may improve this article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new article, as appropriate. (January 2015) The history of economic thought deals with different thinkers and theories in the subject that became political economy and economics, from the ancient world to the present day. It encompasses many disparate schools of economic thought.
A pure substance is a substance that cannot be separated by physical means. eg. filtration, evaporation, distillation or chromatography. Examples of pure substances include water, gold, glucose, carbon dioxide, oxygen and hydrogen. A pure substance is made up of one type of particle. The particle that makes up water is H 2 O. The particle that makes up carbon dioxide is CO 2.
A substance containing only one type of atom or one type of molecule is a pure substance. Most of the matter around us, however, consists of mixtures of pure substances. Air, wood, rocks and dirt are examples of such mixtures. Mixtures can be classified as Homogeneous and Heterogeneous.