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Science vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ductility | A material's ability to deform under tensile stress without breaking, allowing it to be stretched into a wire. |
| Malleability | the ability of a material to be hammered, rolled, or pressed into thin sheets or other shapes without breaking or cracking under compressive stress |
| weight | a body's relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; the heaviness of a person or thing. |
| Density | the degree of compactness of a substance. |
| Intensive properties | physical characteristics of a substance that do not depend on the amount of matter present |
| Extensive properties | a physical property whose magnitude depends on the size or amount of the system, meaning it is additive for subsystems. |
| Chemical properties | a characteristic that describes a substance's ability to undergo a chemical reaction and transform into a new substance. |
| meniscus | the curved upper surface of a liquid in a tube. |
| measurement | the action of measuring something. |
| volume | the amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container, especially when great. |
| Water displacement method | Water displacement methoda technique used to find the volume of an irregularly shaped object by submerging it in water and measuring the volume of water it pushes aside (displaces). |
| Graduated cylinder | a tall, narrow container with markings along its side to precisely measure the volume of a liquid. |
| Solute | the minor component in a solution, dissolved in the solvent. |
| Solvent | able to dissolve other substances. |