Chemical Compound - Wikipedia - chemical bonds  ## Metadata - Author: **chemical bonds** - Full Title: Chemical Compound - Wikipedia - Category: #articles - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_compound ## Highlights - A chemical compound is a chemical substance composed of many identical molecules (or molecular entities) composed of atoms from more than one element held together by chemical bonds. A molecule consisting of atoms of only one element is therefore not a compound. There are four types of compounds, depending on how the constituent atoms are held together: molecules held together by covalent bonds ionic compounds held together by ionic bonds intermetallic compounds held together by metallic bonds certain complexes held together by coordinate covalent bonds. - Tags: #chemistry