Like, if you look at the back of a shampoo bottle or something, there’s always a ridiculously long name for an ingredient.Are these sorts of ingredients able to be broken down into elements? Kind of like how dihydrogen monoxide is just the chemical name for water.
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The universal way to break down every chemical into atoms is to add heat. At high enough temperature (think thousands of degrees), all normal matter turns into a plasma of individual atoms flying about minding their own business. We can then even check the composition (“how much of which”), but all information about their prior arrangement is lost.
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