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Chapter 2 vocab
8th grade science
Term | Definition |
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matter | anything that has mass and takes up space |
substance | a single kind of matter that is pure (specific makeup and properties) |
physical property | a characteristic that can be observed using the senses |
element | a pure substance that cannot be broken down into any other substance by physical or chemical means |
atom | the basic particle from which elements are made |
chemical bond | force of attraction between two atoms |
molecules | groups of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds |
compound | a pure substance made of two or more elements chemically combined in a set ratio |
mixture | made of two or more substances not chemically combined |
heterogeneous mixture | different parts of the mixture are visible |
homogeneous mixture | the different parts of the mixture are not visible and it is uniform |
weight | measure of the force of gravity on an object |
mass | the amount matter in an object |
density | mass of a material in a given volume |
volume | amount of space matter occupies |
chemical change | a change in matter that produces one or more new substances with new properties |
law of conservation of mass | the fact that matter is not created nor destroyed in any chemical or physical change |