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Why is sodium chloride and water called as pure substances even though they have more than one type of element ( pure substances consists of single type of particles)?

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They have fixed composition of elements. That is 23 parts of sodium and 35.5 parts of Chlorine.
Water has 2 parts of hydrogen and 8 parts of oxygen.

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