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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Substance | is a type of matter with a fixed composition |
| Element | is a substance made up of atoms that are all alike |
| Compound | is a substance in which the atoms of two or more elements are chemically combined in a fixed proportion |
| Heterogeneous mixture | a mixture in which different materials remain distinct |
| Suspension | is a heterogeneous mixture made of a liquid and solid particles that settle |
| Colloid | is a heterogeneous mixture with particles that never settle |
| Tyndall effect | the scattering of a light beam as it passes through a colloid |
| homogeneous mixture | is a mixture that remains constantly and uniformly mixed and has particles that are so small that they cannot be seen with a microscope |
| Solution | is the same thing as a homogeneous mixture |
| Physical property | any characteristic of a material that you can observe without changing the identity of the substance |
| Physical change | a change in size ,shape ,or state of matter in which the identity of the substance remains the same |
| Distillation | the process of separating substances, such as salt and water, in a mixture by evaporating a liquid and recondensing its vapor |
| Chemical property | any characteristic of a material that you can observe that produces one or more new substances |
| Chemical change | a change of one substance to another |
| Law of conservation of mass | the mass of all substances that are present before a chemical change, known as the reactants ,equals the mass of all of the substances that remain after the change, which are called the products |