chemical compound

Questions about chemical compound

What does chemical compound mean?

chemical compound means "(chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight".

What is another word for chemical compound?

Close synonyms include compound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chemical compound a common word?

chemical compound is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.