Question

Can y’all help me with this last bit of my hw? I don’t really understand it and I would really appreciate it if you could help me.
The questions to the picture is below:

A chemist mixer two substances together: a colorless liquid with a strong strong smell and a white solid with no smell. The substances’ repeating groups of atoms are shown on the left. After they were mixed, the chemist analyzed the results and found two substances, One ending substance had the resorting group of atoms shown above on the right.

Is the ending substance the same as the colorless liquid? What happened to the atoms of the starting substances when the ending substances formed? Be sure to explain your answers to both of these questions.

Answer 1

"A mineral is a homogeneous (which means composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind) naturally occurring substance with a definite but not necessarily fixed chemical composition. Most minerals are solids with an ordered atomic arrangement, and most are inorganic in the chemical sense of that word".