When dissolved in water, flunitrazepam, also known as roofies or the "date rape" drug, is difficult to detect because it is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. Recently, a straw has been developed that changes color when placed in a drink spiked with flunitrazepam. A woman at a bar is worried that flunitrazepam was slipped into her water when she left it unattended. She places one of these new color-changing straws into the water and the straw does not change color. Based on this result, is the woman's drink a pure substance or a mixture? mixture pure substance If it is a pure substance, is it an element or a compound? compound

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When dissolved in water, flunitrazepam, also known as roofies or the "date rape" drug, is difficult to detect because it is
colorless, odorless, and tasteless. Recently, a straw has been developed that changes color when placed in a drink spiked
with flunitrazepam. A woman at a bar is worried that flunitrazepam was slipped into her water when she left it unattended.
She places one of these new color-changing straws into the water and the straw does not change color.
Based on this result, is the woman's drink a pure substance or a mixture?
mixture
pure substance
If it is a pure substance, is it an element or a compound?
compound
Transcribed Image Text:When dissolved in water, flunitrazepam, also known as roofies or the "date rape" drug, is difficult to detect because it is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. Recently, a straw has been developed that changes color when placed in a drink spiked with flunitrazepam. A woman at a bar is worried that flunitrazepam was slipped into her water when she left it unattended. She places one of these new color-changing straws into the water and the straw does not change color. Based on this result, is the woman's drink a pure substance or a mixture? mixture pure substance If it is a pure substance, is it an element or a compound? compound
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