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Chapter 2 & 3 Vocabulary

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Matter   Anything that occupies space and has mass  
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Mass   the quantity of matter an object has.  
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Atom   The simplest particle of an element that retains all of the properties of that element  
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Nucleus   The central region of an atom  
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Proton   A positively charged subatomic particle  
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Atomic Number   The number of protons in an atom  
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Mass Number   an atom is equal is equal to the total number of protons and neutrons in an atom.  
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Electrons   high-energy particles that have very little mass  
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Orbital   a three-dimensional region around a nucleus that indicates the probable location of an electron.  
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Isotopes   Atoms of the same element that have a different numbers of neutrons  
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Chemical Bond   the attractive forces that hold atoms together  
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Covalent Bond   when two atoms share one or more pairs of electrons  
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Molecule   the simplest part of a substance that retains all of the properties of that substance and can exist in a free state.  
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Ion   An atom or molecule with electrical charge  
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Ionic Bond   Positive and negative electrical charges attract each each other, the sodium ion and the chloride ion attract each other  
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Energy   the ability to do work  
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Chemical Reaction   one or more substance charge to produce one or more different substances  
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Reactants   shown on the left side of the equation (before arrow)  
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Products   this reaction are shown on the right side (after the arrow)  
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Metabolism   the term used to describe all of the chemicals reaction that occur in an organism  
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Activation Energy   the amount of energy needed to start a chemical reaction  
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Catalysts   reduced the amount of activation energy that is needed for a reaction to take place  
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Enzyme   a protein or RNA molecule that speed that speeds up metabolic reactions without being permanently changed or destroyed  
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Redox reaction   when electrons are transferred between atoms are known as oxidation reduction reactions or  
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Oxidation Reactions   a reactant loses one or more electrons, thus becoming more positive in charge  
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Reduction reaction   a reactant gains on or more election thus becoming more negative in charge  
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Polar   Uneven distribution of charge  
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Hydrogen Bond   the force of attraction between a hydrogen molecule with a partial positive charge and another atom molecule with a or full negative charge  
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Cohesion   An attractive force that holds molecules of a single substance together  
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Adhesion   the attractive force between two particles of different substances (ex. water molecules and glass molecules)  
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Capillarity   the attraction between molecules that results in the rise of the surface of a liquid when in contact with solid  
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Solution   a mixture in which one or more substances are uniformly distributed in another substance.  
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Solute   a substance dissolved in the solvent  
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Solvent   the substance in which the solute is dissolved  
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Concentration   the amount of solute dissolved in a fixed amount of of the solution  
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Saturated Solution   one in which o more solute can dissolve  
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Aqueous Solution   solutions in which water is the solvent  
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Hydroxide Ion   OH- ion  
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Hydronium Ion   H3O + ion  
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Base   A solution that contains more hydroxide ions than hydronium ions  
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pH scale   A scale for comparing the relative concentrations of hydronium ions and hydroxide ions in a solution  
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Buffers   chemical substances that neutralize small amounts of either acid or base added to a solution  
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