Quote Originally Posted by bigdare23 View Post
Well you're wrong

CHEMICALFORMULA is giving

Now the 1st "A" in the word chemical is 2nd letter in the clue

"an element found in nature"

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The last letter in the word above is the the 3rd letter in the following clue

"a family of compounds that can hold water"

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If you wanted to be technical an element found in nature could be considered "natural", which is 7 letters ending in "L" then "gels" would fit as the 4 letter word.