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.
Yes, in chemistry a pure substance means either an element or a compound. Thus, hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, iron, copper etc. are pure substances; and so are compounds such as water, sugar, ammonia, sodium chloride, methane, ethanol etc. A compound is composed of two or more elements combined in a fixed ratio by mass. Like an element, a compound also has a distinct chemical identity. A mixture is not a pure substance as it is a collection of two or more elements/compounds in varying ratio. Air, sea water, gasoline, vegetable oils, steel etc. are mixtures.