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Matter Ch3 Vocab
Matter Chapter 3 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mixture | Matter that consists of two of mare substances mixed but not chemically combined. |
| Heterogeneous mixture. | Substance that does not appear to be the same throughout. |
| Homogeneous mixture. | Mixture that appears the same throughout. |
| Colloid | Homogeneous mixture in which the particles are mixed together but not dissolved. |
| Solution | Homogeneous mixture in which one other substance is dissolved in another. |
| Solute | Substance that is dissolved in a solution. |
| Solvent | Substance that does the dissolving. |
| Solulbe | Can be dissolved in water. |
| Insoluble | Unable to be dissolved in water. |
| Solubility | The amount of a solute that can be completely dissolved in a given amount of solvent at a specific temperature. |
| Alloy | A solution of two metals or a metal and a nonmetal property of a metal. |
| Pure substance | Substance made of one kind of material having definite properties. |
| Element | Simplest type of a pure substance. |
| Atom | Smallest particle of an element that has all the properties of that element. |
| Chemical symbol | Shorthand way of representing an element. |
| Compound | Substance made up of molecules that contain more than one kind of atom; two or more elements chemically combined. |
| Molecule | Structure made up of two or more atoms. |
| Chemical formula | Combination of chemical symbols usually used to represent a compound. |
| Subscript | Number placed to the lower right of a chemical symbol to indicate the number of atoms of the element in the compound. |
| Chemical equation | Expression in which symbols, formulas, and numbers are used to represent a chemical reaction. |
| Coefficient | Number placed in front of a symbol or formula in a chemical equation that indicates how many atoms or molecules of this substance are involved in the reaction. |