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 chemical substance (also called a pure substance) may well be defined as any material with a definite chemical composition in an introductory general chemistry textbook. According to this definition a chemical substance can either be a pure chemical element or a pure chemical compound.