Term | Definition |
Reactant | a substance that takes part in and undergoes change during a reaction. |
Product | an article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale. |
Chemical energy | that part of the energy in a substance that can be released by a chemical reaction |
Exothermic reaction | a chemical reaction accompanied by the evolution of heat |
Endothermic reaction | a chemical reaction accompanied by the absorption of heat |
synthesis reaction | A synthesis reaction or direct combination reaction is one of the most common types of chemical reactions. |
Decomposition reaction | analysis or breakdown is the separation of a chemical compound into elements or simpler compounds |
Electrolysis | chemical decomposition produced by passing an electric current through a liquid or solution containing ions. |
Combustion reaction | A combustion reaction is a reaction in which one of the reactants is oxygen. |
Single-displacement
reaction | A displacement reaction is a type of reaction where part of one reactant is replaced by another reactant. |
Double-displacement
reaction | A salt metathesis reaction, sometimes called a double replacement reaction, is a chemical process involving the exchange of bonds between two reacting chemical species, |
Oxidation-reduction
reaction | Redox reactions include all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation state changed |
Radical | a group of atoms behaving as a unit in a number of compounds. |
Chemical equation | A chemical equation is the symbolic representation of a chemical reaction wherein the reactant entities are given on the left-hand side and the product entities on the right-hand side. |
Mole ratio | A mole ratio is ratio between the amounts in moles of any two compounds involved in a chemical reaction. |
mole | Mole is a unit of measurement used in chemistry to express amounts of a chemical substance, |
Avogadro's constant | In chemistry and physics, the Avogadro constant is defined as the number of constituent particles per mole of a given substance, |
Molar mass | In chemistry, the molar mass M is a physical property. It is defined as the mass of a given substance divided by its amount of substance |
Conversion factor | an arithmetical multiplier for converting a quantity expressed in one set of units into an equivalent expressed in another. |