-- If there are only <em>10</em> elements in the universe that can make compound molecules, and a compound molecule can be formed by combining 1, 2, 3, or 4 different elements, then that's already the possibility of at least 400 different molecules.
-- There are many more than 10 elements that can combine to form compound molecules.
-- Every single "<em>organic</em>" molecule, of which there are thousands, is the combination of <em>carbon</em> with other elements.
-- Most all of the substances that can be distilled out of oil, including the paraffin waxes, the alcohols, gasoline, kerosene, butane, propane, octane, and natural gas, are made of just carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, only with different numbers of each one.
-- Plastics, drugs, rubber, and DNA are examples of molecules that are made of <em>hundreds</em> of atoms.
Metal is cold because it is a good conductor. A conductor carries heat away from and object. Heat flows from your hand into the metal and then is conducted rapidly away into the bulk of the metal, leaving the metal surface and your skin surface relatively cool.
The name of the article from which the quote "Physicists speak of the continuous dance of sub-atomic matter which goes on all the time. They have actually used the words dance of creation and destruction or energy dance." was taken from is Carl Sagan Fritjof Capra on The dance that reveals the mysteries of the universe-Part ll
