Welcome to the International Home Care Nurses Organization. The International Home Care Nurses Organization is a world-wide network of nurses interested in promoting excellence in home-based healthcare throughout the world. We strive to achieve this goal through three initiatives:
The definition of a molecule is the smallest amount of something, particularly of a chemical substance, that can exist on its own. An example of a molecule are two atoms of hydrogen.
A molecule is a particle containing two or more atoms. If it contains only one type of atom it is called an element. An exception to this is diatomic gases (for example: Oxygen, O 2, where the molecule contains two atoms of the same element, bonded covalently.