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Making Sense of Atom
Discovering Design with Chemistry chapter 3
Term | Definition |
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Radioactive decay | The spontaneous breakdown of an atom's nucleus, which often changes the element to which the atom belongs |
Physical constant | A quantity in nature that never changes |
Ground state | The lowest energy state of a particle |
Spectroscopy | Identifying chemicals by studying the light they emit or absorb |