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.
Compounds <br /> A compound is made up of two or more types of elements (e.g. water and carbon dioxide) that are chemically combined in a set ratio. They cannot be broken down into two or more simpler substances by physical means, only by chemical means. Properties of compounds differ from those of their elements.
A compound is a substance in which atoms of different elements are chemically held to one another. A mixture is a substance made by combining two or more different materials in such a way that no chemical reaction occurs.A mixture can usually be separated back into its original components, a compound can not.  The difference is that a compound is a chemically combined  'mixture' (well defined, with one set of properties) and a mixture  is not chemically combined (in a non-defined, variable combination  of compounds and/or elements, all with its own properties:  kerosine/gasoline/naphta, moist/dry air).