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Unit 1: Matter
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Matter | Defined as anything that has mass and takes up space |
| Physical property | a characteristic that can be observed or measured without changing the identity of the substance |
| Chemical property | a property of matter that describes ability to participate in chemical reactions |
| Physical properties | a characteristic of a substance that does not involve a chemical chance such as density, color, or hardness |
| chemical properties | relates to a substance ability to undergo changes that transform it into different substances |
| Extensive properties | Depend on the amount of matter that is present |
| Intensive properties | do not depend on the amount of matter that is present |
| ductility | The ratio of a substance to the volume of the substance |
| Malleability | the ability of a substance to be hammered or beaten into a sheet |
| volume | a measure of the size of a body or region in three dimensional space |
| compressibility | the measure of how much a given volume matter when placed under pressure |
| density | is the amount of mass to volume dived by volume |
| evaporation | the change of a substance from a liquid to a gas |
| sublimation | the process of which a solid changes directly into a gas |
| vaporization | the process of which a liquid or solid changes to a gas |
| element | a pure substance that cannot be broken down into simpler, stable and is made of one type of atom |
| compound | a substance made up of atoms of two or more different element joined by chemical bonds |
| heterogeneous mixture | composed of dissimilar components |
| homogeneous mixture | describes something that has a uniform structure or composition throughout |
| atom | the smallest unit of an element that maintains the chemical properties of that element |
| Physical changes | a change in the substance that does not involve a change in the identity of the substance |
| Chemical changes | a change in which one or more substances are converted into different substances. |