Compound
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Example:
Imagine trying to bake a cake with ingredients from your pantry. Just as flour, sugar, eggs, and butter combine to create something new and delicious when baked together, atoms from different elements combine to form a compound. In both scenarios, individual components (ingredients or atoms) come together to create a new entity with distinct properties, like a cake or a chemical compound, that is different from any of its individual parts.
Practice Version
Compound: The substance made when atoms from two or more elements combine chemically is called a compound. In simple terms, a compound is a substance formed when different elements join together.