Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. material components

Narrower term/s

• macromolecules
• carbon nanotubes

Anotations

Scope note:

The smallest components of a compound that can exist independently and retain their properties. The atoms that make up a molecule are either bonded together covalently, as in carbon dioxide, or electrovalently, as in sodium chloride.