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Chemical Reaction
Term | Definition | Personal Definitions |
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Chemical reaction: | process of rearranging atoms by breaking and forming chemical bonds to form new compounds (starting substance(s) that changes to form different ending substance(s)) | what happens in real life |
Chemical equation: | represents a chemical reaction using chemical formulas of the substances involved in the chemical reaction. Has reactants that form products, separated by a yield sign. | represents the reactions |
Reactants: | starting material in a chemical reaction (left side of equation) | starting materials/chemicals |
Products: | ending material in a chemical reaction (right side of an equation) | ending materials/chemicals |
Yield sign: | arrow in the equation that separates the reactants from the products | separates the chemicals |
Coefficient: | Large number found before the chemical formula in an equation representing the number of particles of that compound | the big number in front of a chemical formula |
Subscript: | small number found after an element WITHIN a chemical formula representing the number of atoms of the element found in one molecule (particle) of the substance | the little number within the chemical formula |
Aqueous: | state of matter where a compound is dissolved in water | something that can dissolve in water |