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Chemistry exam2011
chemistry midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| chemistry | cience thats deals with the matter of the universe and the changes they under go |
| theory | explaination that has stood up to much testing and observation |
| natural law | summary of observation |
| scientific method | process used to make and explain discoveries to solve problems |
| matter | has mass and occupies space |
| compound | atoms of different elements chemically combined |
| element | cannot be separated into similar substances |
| solid | has a fixed shape and volume |
| liquid | has a fixed volume but assumes shape of its container |
| gas | no fixed volume or shape |
| physical properties | inherent characteristics of a substance |
| chemical properties | ability to form new substances |
| physical change | composition of a substince is not affected |
| chemical change | a new substance is formed |
| physical properties | density/harness, color/odor, melting/boiling pint |
| nucleus | dense, positively charged center of an atom; proton and neutron |
| mass number | sum of the protons and the number of neutrons in the nucleus of an atom |
| electron | negetivley charged subatomic particle |
| isotopes | atom with same number of protons but different number of neutrons |
| ion | atom with a charge |
| polyatomic ions | ions containg several atoms |
| binary ionic compounds | metal and nonmetal bonded together |
| D=m/v | formula for density |
| average atomic mass | weighted aaverage of all of the isotopes of an element |
| mole | 6.022x 10^23 atoms |
| chemical reaction | process in which a new substance is formed |
| reactant | substance that enters into a chemical reaction |
| product | written on the right side of the arrow in a chemical equation |
| coefficient | numbers used to balancce chemical equations |