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Chemical compounds consists of bonds of different chemical elements. For example, table salt is sodium chloride, which is a compound that consists of sodium atoms with chloride atoms, the strong-smelling chemical you find in bleach.

A chemical element, on the other hand, is a chemical made of a single atom. The atom has a shell that contains positive and negative charges, electrons, and other partials depending on the chemical properties. Extremely unstable elements emit a type of energy called radiation, usually in the form of ionizing radiation, the type you find released by an nuclear weapon.

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Flavio Mitchell

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