All compounds are molecules but not all molecules are compounds. Explain this statement.

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Maritza Mahoney

7 May, 00:26

All compounds are molecules but not all molecules are compounds. Explain this statement.

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Nadia Caldwell · Answer 1

All compounds are molecules because a molecule is 2 or more substances/elements combined and a compound is 2 or more elements combined. But not all molecules are elements because some molecules are just combined substances with no elements combined at all.