What is the structure of a water molecule and a compound water?

Question

The question says, Describe the structure of both a water molecule and the compound water. I looked up a site and it said all compounds are molecules but not all molecules are compounds. I really don't understand this. Please help!

Answer 1

ok 4 a start.. water is made up of 2hydrogen atoms and an oxygen... it's v-shaped. water molecules are held by permernet dipole-dipole forces of attraction.  

Answer 2

what the question is pertaining to is that one MOLECULE OF WATER is composed of 2 H atoms and 1 oxygen atom. but a WATER COMPOUND  is composed of multiple WATER MOLECULES,

GO TO THIS LINK FOR A PIC OF A MOLECULE http://www.bcscience.com/bc9/images/0_qu...

GO HERE FOR A COMPOUNDhttp://courses.cm.utexas.edu/jrobertus/c...

Answer 3

A compound is a combination of two or more elements. NaCl is a compound, not a molecule, because it dissociates into Na+ ion and Cl- ion. A molecule involves covalent bonds. Glucose is a molecule. To describe water as a compound, I would say it is H2O, or hydrogen oxide. To describe water as a molecule, I would say it is H-O-H.