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component (chemistry)

A substance present in a system, regardless of its state of matter. Water will be a single component, whether it is present as a solid, liquid, gas, or some combination of these.

Component may refer to:

A piece that makes up a whole, a part of an assembly An electronic component A component of a spatial vector Component video, a type of analog video information that is transmitted or stored as two or more separate signals Symmetrical components, in electrical engineering, analysis of unbalanced three phase power systems Software componentry, a field of study within software engineering dealing with object-oriented design Connected component (graph theory), a maximal connected subgraph Component (thermodynamics), a chemically distinct constituent of a phase of a system Component (group theory), a quasisimple subnormal subgroup Component (VTA), a light-rail station in San Jose, California
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