The bowl of plain vanilla ice cream is a solution because it has a uniform composition and you cannot see any individual components within it. In contrast, the bowl of vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips is not a solution; you can see the individual chocolate chips mixed in with the ice cream. Therefore, the accurate statement would be that the plain vanilla ice cream is a homogeneous mixture, while the vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips is a heterogeneous mixture.
A solution is a special mixture where you cannot see the individual substances that are mixed. You look at two bowls of ice cream. One bowl is plain vanilla ice cream and the other is vanilla with chocolate chips. Which statement accurately describes the two bowls of ice cream?
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