Homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures settle, or separate. As a homogeneous mixture, a solution has one phase (liquid) although the solute and solvent can vary: for example, salt water. Air can be more specifically described as a gaseous solution (oxygen and other gases dissolved in the major component, nitrogen). Since interactions between molecules play almost no role, dilute gases form rather trivial solutions. In part of the literature, they are not even classified as solutions. In gas intermolecular space is greatest and intermolecular force of attraction is least. In chemistry, a mixture is a substance containing two or more elements or compounds that are not
A Woman of Substance A Woman of Substance A Woman of Substance is a novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford, published in 1979. The novel is the first of a seven-book saga about the fortunes of a retail empire and the machinations of the business elite across three generations. The series, featuring Emma Harte and her family also includes "Hold The Dream", "To Be The Best", "Emma's Secret", "Unexpected Blessings", "Just Rewards" and "Breaking the Rules". "A Woman of Substance" was adapted as "an eponymous television miniseries" as were the sequels "Hold The Dream" and "To Be The Best". The book starts with an elderly