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Chemical Reactions
Chemical Reactions Vocabulary-CMS
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| process that produces chemical change, resulting in new substances that have properties different from those of the original substance | Chemical Reaction |
| when a solid dissolves in a liquid, the solid breaks apart into particles too small to see and mixes completely in the liquid | Dissolve |
| mass is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions | Law of Conservation of Mass |
| characteristics of substances that do not change | Property |
| general rules that are followed while doing science or rules that nature tends to follow | Scientific Principal |
| a material made of only one type of matter (made of one ingredient throughout) | Substance |
| a blend of two or more substances | Mixture |
| describes a material that can dissolve in a particular substance | Soluble |
| describes a material that does not dissolve in something else | Insoluble |
| original substance at the beginning of a chemical reaction | Reactant |
| the new substance produced in a chemical reaction | Product |
| the smallest particle of an element that still has the same chemical properties of the element | Atom |
| particle of matter that is made of two or more atoms that are joined together | Molecule |
| substance formed by the chemical combination of two or more elements | Compound |
| anything that has mass and takes up space | Matter |
| shows the number of molecules, will be in front (to the left) of the element symbol | Coefficient |
| shows how many atoms in a formula; written to the lower right of the element symbol | Subscript |
| any property that can be observed using the five senses or can be measured without changing the matter | physical property |
| any aspect of a substance which is only seen by means of a chemical reaction | chemical property |