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Term | Definition |
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chemical change | a change that results in a new substance being made |
physical change | A physical change is any change NOT involving a change in the substance's chemical identity. |
chemical property | A chemical property is any of a material's properties that becomes evident during, or after, a chemical reaction; that is, any quality that can be established only by changing a substance's chemical identity. |
physical property | A physical property is any property that is measurable, whose value describes a state of a physical system. The changes in the physical properties of a system can be used to describe its transformations or evolutions between its momentary states. |
synthesis | the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity |
decomposition | The separation of a substance into simpler substances or basic elements |
single replacement | where one element is replaced |
double replacement | where 2 elements are replaced |