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Adams ch 17 vocab

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plasma   a fourth phase of matter in addition to solid liquid, and gass. in the plasma phase, which exists mainly at high temperature, matter consists of positively charged ions and free electrons  
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periodic table   a chart that lists elements by atomic number and by electron arrangements so that elements with the similar chemical properties are in the same column  
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shell model of the atom   a model in which the electrons of an atom are pictured as grouped in concentric shells around the nucleus  
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atomic number   number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.  
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isotopes   a form of an element having a particular number of neutrons in the nuclei of its atoms. different isotopes of a particular element have the same atomic number but different atomic mass numbers.  
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protons   a positively charged particle that is one of the two kinds of particles found in the nucleus of an atom  
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neutrons   an electrically neutral particle that is one of the two kinds of particles that compose an atomic nucleus  
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nucleons   the principal building block of the nucleus; a neutron or a proton.  
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chemical formula   a description that used numbers and symbols of elements to describe the proportions of elements in a compound or reaction  
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compound   a cehemical substance made of atoms of two or more different elements combined in a fixed proportion  
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molecule   the smallest particle of substance consisting of two or more atoms of the same or different elements bonded together.  
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brownian motion   the perpetual random movement of microscopic particles suspended in a fluid medium.  
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element   a substance made of only one kind of atom. examples of elements are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.  
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atoms   the smallest particle of an element that can e identified with that element. consists of protons and neutrons in a nucleus  
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nucleus   the positively charged center of an atom, which contains protons and neutorns and has almost all the mass of the entire atom but only a tiny fraction of the volume  
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