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unit 1: matter
Term | Definition |
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Matter | Matter is a measure of amount of Mass. Matter can be defined as anything that has mass and takes up space. |
physical property | Physical property is a characteries that can be observed or measured without changing the identify of the substance |
chemical property | Chemical property is a substance abality to undergo changes that transform in to diffrent substance |
Extensive property | Extensive properties depend on the amount of matter that is present |
Intensive property | Intensive property do not depend on the amount of matter present. |
ductility | The ability of a substance to be hammered thin or draw out into wire. |
Malleabity | The ability of substance to be hammered or being or beaten in a sheet |
Volume | A measurement of the size of a body or region in three dimensional space |
Compressibity | The measure of how much a given volume of matter decreases when placed under pressure. |
Density | The ratio of mass substance often expressed as grams per cubic centimeter for solids and liquides and as grams |
evaporation | The ratio mass of a substance the volume of the substance to the volume of substance . |
sublimation | the process on which a solid changes directly into gas term is sometimes also used for the revsved process |
vaporization | The process by which a liquid or solid changes to gas is called vaporization |
element | A substance that cannot be seprated or broken down into simpler substance by chemical means all atoms of an ealement having the same atomic number |
compound | A compound is the substance that can be broken down into simple stable substance. |
heterogeneous mixture | Mixtures that are not uniform through are said to be heterogenous mixture |
homogeneous mixture | The mixture that are uniform through said to be homogeneous miture |
atom | Atoms are the Blocks of matter. Atom is the smallest unit of an element that maintains the chemical identify of that element. |
Chemical change | A change in which one or more substance are converted into different substance ( chemical RXN ) |
Physical change | A change in a substance that does not involve a change in the identify of substance . A state of matter solid - liquid - gas |