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Unit 1: Matter
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Matter | Anything that takes up space and that has mass |
| Physical Property | a characteristic of a substance that does not involve a chemical change |
| Chemical property | a property of matter that describes a substance ability to participate in chemical reactions |
| Physical Changes | a change of matter from one form to another without a change in chemical properties |
| Chemical changes | a change that occurs when one of more substance change |
| extensive property | a property that depends on the extent or size of a system |
| intensive property | the property that doesn't depend on the amount of matter present |
| ductility | the ability of a substance to be hammered thin or drawn out into a wire |
| malleability | the ability of a substance to be hammed or beaten into a sheet |
| volume | a measure of the size of a body or region in the three-dimensional space |
| compressibility | the measure of how much a given volume of matter decreases when placed under pressure |
| density | the ratio of the mass |
| evaporation | the change of a substance from a liquid to gas |
| sublimation | the process in which a solid change directly into a gas |
| vaporization | the process by which a solid or liquid turn into a gas |
| element | a substance that cannot be seprated |
| compound | a substance made up of two or more atoms |
| atom | the smallest unit of an element |
| `heteogeneous mixture | composed of dissimiliar components |
| homogeneous mixture | describes something that has a uniform structure or composition throughout |