the.com/chemical compound
Two or more elements stuck together so tightly they forget their old personalities.
means A substance made of two or more different elements chemically bonded together in a fixed ratio, forming something with properties entirely its own.
from 'Chemical' traces back through alchemy to Greek khēmeia, likely tied to Khēmia, an old name for Egypt and its arts of transmutation. 'Compound' comes from Latin componere, 'to put together' — com (together) plus ponere (to place). So the phrase literally means 'elements placed together' through the ancient craft of transformation, which is, pleasingly, exactly what it still describes.
- not a mixture
- fixed ratio, chemically bonded, not just stirred together
- new identity
- sodium explodes, chlorine kills, together they season fries
- breakup cost
- separating elements again needs real energy, not a shake
- count
- over 350 million known compounds and climbing daily