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There are just 10 digits and they can make up an infinity of numbers. There are only 26 letters of the [Roman] alphabet, but there are hundreds of thousands of words. So this should not even be a question!

Elements combine with one another to form compounds whose properties are quite unrelated to the separate elements or to other compounds formed from the same basic elements. Just think of the range of different compounds made from carbon and hydrogen.


Also, technically there are now 118 elements though some are too short lived and unstable to form compounds.

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