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Old July 15th 05, 06:35 PM
L.W.(ßill) Hughes III
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The operative word in my question was "YOU" and you failed again.
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Stephen Cowell wrote:
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> It would be much easier to let others tell the tale...
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> http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/we...mical+compound
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_compound
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> Particularly edifying are the following, from Wiki:
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> A chemical compound is a chemical substance formed from two or more elements, with a fixed ratio determining the composition. For example, dihydrogen monoxide (water, H2O) is a compound composed of two hydrogen atoms for every oxygen atom.
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> In general, this fixed ratio must be fixed due to some sort of physical property, rather than an arbitrary man-made selection. This is why materials such as brass, the superconductor YBCO, the semiconductor aluminium gallium arsenide, or chocolate are considered mixtures or alloys rather than compounds.
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> Steve
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