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Chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reactant | a substance that takes part in and undergoes change during a reaction. |
| Product | an article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale. |
| Chemical energy | that part of the energy in a substance that can be released by a chemical reaction |
| Exothermic reaction | a chemical reaction accompanied by the evolution of heat |
| Endothermic reaction | a chemical reaction accompanied by the absorption of heat |
| synthesis reaction | A synthesis reaction or direct combination reaction is one of the most common types of chemical reactions. |
| Decomposition reaction | analysis or breakdown is the separation of a chemical compound into elements or simpler compounds |
| Electrolysis | chemical decomposition produced by passing an electric current through a liquid or solution containing ions. |
| Combustion reaction | A combustion reaction is a reaction in which one of the reactants is oxygen. |
| Single-displacement reaction | A displacement reaction is a type of reaction where part of one reactant is replaced by another reactant. |
| Double-displacement reaction | A salt metathesis reaction, sometimes called a double replacement reaction, is a chemical process involving the exchange of bonds between two reacting chemical species, |
| Oxidation-reduction reaction | Redox reactions include all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation state changed |
| Radical | a group of atoms behaving as a unit in a number of compounds. |
| Chemical equation | A chemical equation is the symbolic representation of a chemical reaction wherein the reactant entities are given on the left-hand side and the product entities on the right-hand side. |
| Mole ratio | A mole ratio is ratio between the amounts in moles of any two compounds involved in a chemical reaction. |
| mole | Mole is a unit of measurement used in chemistry to express amounts of a chemical substance, |
| Avogadro's constant | In chemistry and physics, the Avogadro constant is defined as the number of constituent particles per mole of a given substance, |
| Molar mass | In chemistry, the molar mass M is a physical property. It is defined as the mass of a given substance divided by its amount of substance |
| Conversion factor | an arithmetical multiplier for converting a quantity expressed in one set of units into an equivalent expressed in another. |