The phrase "a compound of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing mixtures, combinations, or elements that form a whole, particularly in scientific or technical writing.
Example: "The solution is a compound of a variety of chemicals that react to produce the desired effect."
Alternatives: "a mixture of a" or "a combination of a".
The second method is the reaction of a compound of a metal, usually an oxide, with carbon at high temperature.
He struck a contemporary as "a compound of a Prussian reserve officer and a budding Prussian judge who is trying to copy the officer".
Its conditional random process is made by a Gamma and a compound of a Nakagami-m distribution and a Rayleigh random phasor.
But a country "is not a discernible collection of discernible individuals"; it is rather "an abstraction … a compound of a few actual and many imaginary ingredients".
In the conceptual framework of Metaphysics Ζ, a universal such as man or horse which was called a species and a secondary substance in the Categories is construed as "not a substance, but a compound of a certain formula and a certain matter, taken universally" (Z.10, 1035b29 30).
Marignac suspected that ytterbia was a compound of a new element that he called "ytterbium".
Some failed to find its anagram A-LIST, which is under the very first entry in Chambers as a compound of A. This rich Christmas pudding of a puzzle seems to have been generally popular, if on the tough side, though I guess that the placing and thus the recognition of the different clue types was not too difficult.
Eothen includes a compound of five Colonial Revival-style houses, a horse stable and a three-car garage.
But these new panels contain a compound of cadmium, an extremely toxic metal already banned from most products in Europe.
Coupled has 12 beautiful, successful women (one of whom describes herself as an "amusement park princess") in a compound of bungalows on a Caribbean island.
Between 2005 and 2013, firms with more than one woman on the board returned a compound of 3.7% a year over those with no women.
