How a Great Thing (Light) . . . The taming of fire also did something else, though: for the first time in the history of any living thing, it altered the natural cycle of light and dark. Suddenly, our ancestors were able to see 24/7, just by keeping a fire going.
An atom is the smallest particle in anything and everything.An element only has one type of atom and is found in a periodic table. A molecules is two atoms joined together. A compound is two or more elements chemically joined.Both elements and compounds have molecules. Hope this helps.eport Abuse. an atom is the smallest undevidable substance of matter. an element is a substance made by two similar atome by a covalent bond. a molecule is a group of atoms; different ,made by a covalent bond. a compound is a substance made by ionic bond.
A molecule consists of two or more atoms of the same element, or different elements, that are chemically bound together. Note that the two nitrogen atoms which comprise a nitrogen molecule move as a unit. Compounds. Microscopic view of the molecules of the compound water (gas phase).