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Any element that's not a noble gas has to form compounds, because all non-noble elements have to fill its outer orbital and the only way they can do that is to form compounds--even with themselves, like H2 or O2.

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In zinc found combined or uncombined in nature?

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Is chlorine found in its elemental state or combined with other elements?

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