Re: What is the difference between a compound and molecule?

Date: Sun Oct 14 19:19:14 2001
Posted By: Dan Berger, Faculty Chemistry/Science, Bluffton College
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 1002981531.Ch

Message:


A molecule is the smallest unit of a compound that remains that compound. 
If you break molecules of water, for example, into their atoms, you no 
longer have water: you have hydrogen and oxygen.

                        Dan Berger
                        MadSci Admin

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