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Chem Vocab
Question | Answer |
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law of conservation of mass | the mass of the product of a chemil reaction must be the same as the mass of the reactants in that reactin. |
physical change | change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape |
chemical change | involving the rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance |
element | one of a class of substances that cannot be separated into simpler substances by chemical means. See also chart under periodic table |
chimical formula | representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements |
element (diatomic) molecule | all of the atoms in the molecule are the same |
compound molecule | 2 diffrent elments |
chemical equation | a representation of a chemical reaction using symbols of the elements to indicate the amount of substance, usually in moles, of each reactant and product |
Chemical Reaction | The chemical reaction H2(g) + ½ O2(g) → H2O(l) describes the formation of water from its elements. |
reactants | Starting material in a chemical reaction |
products | A product is a substance that is formed as the result of a chemical reaction |
coefficent | a coefficient is a multiplicative factor in some term of an expression (or of a series); it is usually a number, but in any case does not involve any variables of the expression. For instance in |
subscript | It is the number of atoms in the preceding element. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/In_chemistry_what_is_the_meaning_of_subscript#ixzz289RbmA9a |