Question

Why do you think there is not a periodic table of compounds? Explain with evidence.

Answer 1

 Compounds are composed of different elements in a fixed proportions. For example, 1 atom of oxygen (O) combines with 2 atoms of hydrogen (H) to form one molecule of water (H2O) compound. Similarly other numbers of atoms would produce other chemical compounds. Even adding 1 more atom of oxygen would convert the water (H2O) into hydrogen peroxide(H2O2). Even if we were only to list the ones we know there are over 20 million known compounds. 

In order to list all possible compounds such a table would rapidly become combinatoric nightmare of such size that it would not be practical to use even with a computer database and it would consist of over 100 billion possible compounds containing only H, C, O and N. 

Creating a table to handle all possible elements would mean a table of many trillions of compounds.