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Chapter 3
Question | Answer |
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METALS | Good conductors of electricity and heat. Can bend without breaking. Most have a gray color |
MATTER | Everything that has mass and takes up space |
ELEMENT | Substance made of only 1 kind of atom. |
NONMETALS | Do not conduct heat / electricity very well. May be a gas or a solid |
SEMI-METALS | sometimes like metals and sometimes like nonmetals |
MOLECULE | smallest particle of a compound that still acts like that compound |
ELECTRON | Negative charge. Orbits the nucleus |
NEUTRON | No charge. Found in the nucleus |
ATOM | The basic building block of matter. Can’t be any smaller. |
PROTON | Positive charge. Found in the nucleus |
ATOMIC THEORY | states that everything is made of atoms |
COMPOUND | a type of matter made of matter made with two or more elements |