adjective. The definition of vicarious is living as if through someone else or acting for someone else. An example of vicarious is when a mother who always wanted to be a dancer continually pushes her children to do ballet.
Tin is a chemical element. It is often obtained from a mineral called cassiterite (SnO2) and is extracted via cooking it in a furnace with carbon. It is often used as a protec â¦ tive coating on top of other metals (ex. tin cans [made from steel]) to protect them from rust.
Compounds are classified as pure compounds. Compounds are classified as pure compounds. To understand this it is helpful to know how matter is classified from general to specific categories. One approach to classification separates matter into mixtures and pure substances. Mixtures are composed of substances that are physically combined. For example dirt is a heterogenous mixture because it is composed of particles of differing sizes while solutions are homogenous mixtures composed of solute and solvent.