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.
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).