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Science Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Property | Something that can be observed about a substance, such as color, smell, or boiling point. |
| Atoms | The tiny pieces that all matter—all the stuff in the world—is made of. |
| Substance | Something that is made of all the same atoms or groups of atoms. |
| Product | An ending substance that is made during a chemical reaction. |
| Reactant | A starting substance that is part of a chemical reaction. |
| Chemical Reaction | A process in which atoms rearrange to form new substances. |
| Mendeleev | Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements. |
| Atomic Number | The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom, which determines the chemical properties of an element and its place in the periodic table. |
| Atomic Mass | The mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units. |
| Noble Gases | Any of a group of rare gases that include helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and usually radon and that exhibit great stability and extremely low reaction rates. |
| Metals | Any of various opaque, fusible, ductile, and typically lustrous substances that are good conductors of electricity and heat, form cations by loss of electrons, and yield basic oxides and hydroxides. |
| Non Metals | A chemical element (such as boron, carbon, or nitrogen) that lacks the characteristics of a metal. |
| Metalloids | An element intermediate in properties between the typical metals and nonmetals |