"In chemistry, compounds are made whenever two or more different elements come together. You use compounds every day, probably without realizing it. If you're baking a cake, you're using compounds. If you're swimming, you're using compounds. When you breathe, you're actually making compounds, because you inhale oxygen, and exhale carbon dioxide. What other compounds are there? In this book, elementary readers will explore all four kinds of compounds...

Introduces scientific principles involving compounds and mixtures, and provides instructions for experiments that can be done at home to prove them.