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Chapter 15
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| substance | is a type of matter with fixed composition |
| element | if all the atoms in a substance have the same identity |
| compound | is a substance formed from two or more elements |
| heterogeneous mixture | technique that produces a complete three dimensional photographic image of an object. |
| homogeneous mixture | solid, liquid, or gas that contains two or more substances blended evenly throughout. |
| solution | homogeneous mixture that remains constantly and uniformedly mixed and has particles that are so small they cannot be seen with microscope. |
| colloid | heterogeneous mixture whose particles nece settle |
| Tyndall effect | scattering of a light beam as it passes through a colloid. |
| suspendsion | contains a liquid in which visible particles settle. |
| Physical property | an characteristics of a material such as size or shape that you can observe or attempt to observe without changing the identity of the material |
| physical change | any change in size shape or state of matter in which the identity of the substance remains the same. |
| distillation | process than can separate two substance in a mixture by evaporating a liquid and recondensing its vapor |
| chemical property | any characteristic of a substance, such a flammability, that indicates whether it can indergo a certain chemical change. |
| chemical change | change of one substance into a new substance |
| Law of Conservation of Mass | state that the mass of all substances present before a chemical change equals the ass of all the substance remaining after the change. |