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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are compounds of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the components or elements that make up a particular substance or entity.
Example: "Water and salt are compounds of hydrogen and oxygen, and sodium and chlorine, respectively."
Alternatives: "are made up of" or "consist of".
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Boranes are compounds of boron and hydrogen.
NADH and FADH2 are compounds of high electron-donating capacity.
Many important metal ores are compounds of sulfur, either sulfides or sulfates.
Endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide; LPS) and mercury are compounds of food safety concern.
By this time Prout's hypothesis that all the elements are compounds of hydrogen had been revived by physicists in a somewhat more elaborate form.
But in ferrates, which are compounds of iron and oxygen with non-transition metals like sodium and calcium, it loses six.
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Cycles are compounded of many elements.
Highland Gatherings, as annual event date from the late 18th century, but are compounded of ancient elements: trials of strength; ritual dances; local song & story-telling.
"We are compounded of halves," Goldbarth writes, in this inventive essay collection crowded with doubles — "different stories" that "share a spine".
Four more are compounded of those single temperaments namely, hot and dry, hot and moist, cold and dry, and cold and moist.
Metals were thought to be compounds of the metal's calx and phlogiston.
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