People believed the earth was the center of everything

The mass has escaped into a gas which you can not see so the law stays true.

Its the second one nonmetals are moldable and easily shaped 

It is a mixture. simply put, a compound must be pure, that is, of only one chemical structure and composition. a mixture is made of different chemical substances (i.e. elements, molecules, compounds) that are not chemically bonded to each other, but instead physically grouped together, as in the case of gasoline (a homogeneous solution).