Consider the letters in the word chemistry. Use them to make as many word "compounds" as is possible with 9 elements. How is an element different from a compound?

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Consider the letters in the word chemistry. Use them to make as many word "compounds" as is possible with 9 elements. How is an element different from a compound?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-29T21:08:41

Interesting question...

The various permutations of valid elements from the word "chemistry" are:

$C$
$Ce$
$Cm$
$Cs$
$Cr$
$H$
$He$
$Es$
$Er$
$I$
$Ir$
$S$
$Sc$
$Se$
$Sm$
$Si$
$Sr$
$Tc$
$Th$
$Te$
$Tm$
$Ti$
$Rh$
$Re$
$Y$

So you have any $9$ of these at your disposal when making compounds. Let us choose the easiest elements to use: $C$ , $Cs$ , $H$ , $I$ , $S$ , $Se$ , $Si$ , $Sr$ , $Te$ . None of those are transition metals.

These are the compounds I can think of that exist:

$CH_4$
$HI$
$CsI$
$H_2S$
$H_2Se$
$SiH_4$
$SrI_2$
$TeI$

There are probably more but anyways, you can clearly see that each of these have two different elements. That's the definition of a compound.

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