chemical compound

pure chemical substance consisting of two or more different chemical elements
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Summary

chemical compound is a group or class of chemical entities[1]. It draws 9,575 Wikipedia views per month (group or class of chemical entities category, ranking #3 of 12).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: chemical entity[3], molecular entity[4], pure substance[5]
  • Commons category: Chemical compounds[6]
  • Has part(s): atom[7], chemical bond[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Chemical compounds[9]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11]
  • Topic has template: Template:Chembox[12], Template:元素別の化合物分類[13]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/chemical-compounds[14]
  • Has characteristic: chemical property[15], chemical nomenclature[16]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/ChemicalCompound[17], http://www.hozo.jp/owl/YAMATO20210808.miz.owl#Chemical_compound[18], https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_e2b11f6a_4191_427e_9844_2e0ac88dfc8b[19], http://www.kyoto-project.eu/ontologies/Kyoto#compound__chemical_compound-eng-3.0-14818238-n[20]
  • Different from: simple substance[21]
  • Properties for this type: P231[22], P527[23], P117[24], P657[25], P628[26], P1931[27], P2017[28], P232[29], P233[30], P234[31], P235[32], P274[33], P267[34], P592[35]
  • Studied by: chemistry[36]
  • Has part(s) of the class: chemical element[37], moiety[38]
  • Disjoint union of: list of values as qualifiers[39]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[40], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[41]

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Influence

Things named for chemical compound include ferrihydrite[42], a mineral species[43].

Why It Matters

chemical compound has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] It is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]

Entities named for it include ferrihydrite[42], a mineral species[43].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . A Dictionary of Chemistry. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . mappings.dbpedia.org. Retrieved . mappings.dbpedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . YAMATO. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Q141668297. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Q141581969. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/ChemicalCompound, http://www.hozo.jp/owl/YAMATO20210808.miz.owl#Chemical_compo, https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_e2b11f6a_4191_427e_9844_2e0ac88df +1
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.kyoto-project.eu/ontologies/Kyoto#compound__chemical_compound-eng-3.0-14818238-n"
  2. 11d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/ChemicalCompound, http://www.hozo.jp/owl/YAMATO20210808.miz.owl#Chemical_compo, https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_e2b11f6a_4191_427e_9844_2e0ac88df +1
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_e2b11f6a_4191_427e_9844_2e0ac88dfc8b"
  3. 18d ago · Treisijs · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Chemistry
    Subclass of → chemical entity, molecular entity, pure substance
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'a
    Sitelink count → 148
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Chemistry"
  4. 25d ago · Wostr · 2026-09-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → chemical property, chemical nomenclature
    Instance of → group or class of chemical entities
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Has characteristic: type of chemical entity"
  5. 26d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/ChemicalCompound, http://www.hozo.jp/owl/YAMATO20210808.miz.owl#Chemical_compo, https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_e2b11f6a_4191_427e_9844_2e0ac88df +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.hozo.jp/owl/YAMATO20210808.miz.owl#Chemical_compound"
  6. 27d ago · Wostr · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → group or class of chemical entities
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: second-order class"
  7. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3QC6mN
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  8. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0368691-chemicke-slouceniny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0368691-chemicke-slouceniny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259473|batch #259473]]"
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