Barbara Gosselin, P.T. My interest in holistic healing began as the result of a simple suggestion by a friend, but was driven on by my own struggle with back pain. Barbara GosselinBack in the 1980s, I was on a very conventional path, having just received my Bachelorâs degree in Physical Therapy.
A chemical compound (or just compound if used in the context of chemistry) is an entity consisting of two or more atoms, at least two from different elements, which associate via chemical bonds.
Compounds are (in the chemical sense of the term) made of two or more elements. This means, a lot of molecules (like H2O) are considered compounds (though H2 is not). 'Compound' is often used interchangeably with the word substance, which describes a collective of molecules (water is a substance.ixture: two or more different atoms together but not joined. Molecule: two particles (same or different) bonded together. Element: only 1 type of atom; this definition is applied to things both bonded and not to itself.