Components vs Ingredient - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between components and ingredient

is that components is while ingredient is ingredient.

(head)

(en noun)

One of the substances present in a mixture.

* Sir Isaac Newton

By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients .

* Arbuthnot

Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.

* mixture

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