Why is carbon dioxide a compound?

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A compound is a material formed by chemically bonding two or more chemical elements.
The formula of Carbon Dioxide is ${CO}_{2}$ . So, it is composed of one carbon atom covalently bonded to two oxygen atoms.
It is a gas (at standard temperature and pressure) that is exhaled by animals and utilized by plants during photosynthesis.

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