Compound

Compounds are a type of item from Education Edition used in chemistry, which is created from combinations of various elements.

Obtaining
Compounds cannot be obtained in the creative inventory. They are only obtained from creating them in the compound creator. This is done by inserting a certain number of elements corresponding to the compound's chemical formula.

Natural compounds
Natural compounds are compounds which can be obtained naturally in Minecraft.

Garbage
Garbage is considered a "compound", but the only way to produce it is to activate the Lab Table when its inputs are an invalid recipe. It has no uses.

Usage
Certain compounds are used as ingredients in crafting or lab table experiments. Natural compounds have uses outside of chemistry, detailed in their respective articles.

Sounds
Sounds are produced when a lab table creates garbage.

Item data
Compounds uses the following data values:

Unused compound textures
In the chemistry resource pack folder, there are numerous compound textures which are not used in the game. Note: a  item with a data value of   will have the   texture and will be called. If you use an NBT Editor to get a compound item with no assigned data value (by deleting the data tag) and then transfer that item to another world / realm using structure blocks (by exporting to a  file, then importing it on another world or realm) then it will be renamed to.