Question

Neapolitan ice cream is vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice creams combined in a 1:1:1 ratio. Briefly explain how neapolitan ice cream is a good analogy that helps students understand the relationship between compounds and elements.

Answer 1

Neopolitan ice cream refers to an ice cream compound, that is, it comprises an amalgamation of three distinct elemental ice cream flavors: vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry in equal ratio.  

If one wants, then one can distinguish the three flavors from each other with the help of a knife. This analogy can permit one to witness that how the elements can be combined with each other to produce new components or dissociated into their elements.