Compounds
You’d be surprised: almost everything is a compound. Steel, glass, water, raccoons – all compounds.
Compounds are not just piles of colourful dust or things pharmacists pretend to make while they lounge in the back so you can’t see them playing online poker.
Compounds make you up and fill the world around you, and they are simply substances that contain more than one element.
Compound Sound
Here’s a cool site with short, fascinating podcasts on a variety of compounds like hemoglobin and ozone and THC. The 6-minute episodes detail the historical and cultural relevance of everyday and arcane substances: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/podcast/CIIEcompound.asp
Click a compound, listen and learn! They have an iTunes subscription link, too.
If you’re more interested in single elements, here’s a periodic table of elements with podcasts on things like iron or sulfur or Einsteinium: tp://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/podcast/element.asp
TLDR: humans are compounds too
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