What does compound mean??

Question

What does compound mean??

Answer 1

A chemical compound is a substance consisting of two or more same or different elements chemically bonded together in a fixed proportion by mass.

Answer 2

a substance consisting of same kind of atoms [ building blocks of matter ] is called an element ......... eg nitrogen , oxygen etc.....

but when these elements combine and undergo a chemical reaction they produce a compound ...... eg nitrogen oxide ...........

so compounds are combination of elements

Answer 3

* substance made by combining two or more parts or elements; water is a chemical compound made from hydrogen and oxygen.

*A substance in which the atoms of different elements are bonded to one another. It can be broken down into simpler parts only by a chemical change.