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chemistry
Term | Definition |
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chemistry | the study of composition, structure, properties, and reactions of matter |
Matter | another word for all substances that make up our world. Antacid tablets are matter. Water is matter. Glass is matter. Air is matter. |
Chemicals | substances that have the same composition and properties wherever found often substances made by chemists that you useevery day |
graph | represents the relationship between two variables contains two perpendicular axes has a horizontal axis or x axis has a vertical axis or y axis |
Is light a chemical | no |
Measured numbers | the numbers obtained when you measure a quantity such as your height, weight, or temperature. |
significant figures (SFs | all the digits including the estimated digit. used to represent the amount of error associated with a measurement |
Exact numbers | not measured and do not have a limited number of significant figures do not affect the number of significant figures in a calculated answer |
The amount of space occupied by a substance is its | volume |
Equalities | use two different units to describe the same measured amount ex: 60 min=1 h or 1m=100cm |
Solids | a definite shape a definite volume particles that are close together in a fixed arrangement particles that move very slowly |
Liquids | an indefinite shape but a definite volume the same shape as their container particles that are close together but mobile and move slowly |
Gases | an indefinite shape an indefinite volume the same shape and volume as their container particles that are far apart but move very fast |