Step 1 : Introduction to the question "what is the difference between a mixture and a compound?"
...In chemistry, a mixture is a material made up of two or more different substances which are physically combined.A mixture is the physical combination of two or more substances in which the identities are retained and are mixed in the form of solutions, suspension and colloids. In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition is the process of word formation that creates compound lexemes. That is, in familiar terms, compounding occurs when two or more words or signs are joined to make one longer word or sign.