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Chpater 2 Vocab

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Matter   anything that has mass and takes up space.  
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Physical Property   A property of matter that results from the position and characteristics of its particles and that can be measured without causing a change in the identity of the material  
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Chemical property   A property of matter that describes how one substance reacts in the presence of other substances  
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Physical Change   A change that alters the physical properties of a substance but that does not change the substance's identity.  
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Chemical Change   A change in the identity of a material that results in a different material with a different compositions and properties.  
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Pure substance   A substance that is made up of only one kind of particle and has uniform composition  
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Mixture   Two or more pure substances physically combined with no definite proportions that can be separated by physical means  
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Heterogeneous Mixture   A mixture composed of two or more separate phases that have their own properties  
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Homogeneous mixture   A mixture that shows only a single phase with uniform properties throughout  
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Element   A substance whose atoms all have the same atomic number and that cannot be broken down by ordinary chemical means into anything that is both stable and simpler  
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Atom   A neutral particle with a centrally located nucleus consisting of protons and neutrons with electrons around it.  
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Ion   A charged atom; an atom or molecule that has gained or lost electrons, thus producing an imbalance between the number of protons and electrons in the particle  
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Molecule   two or more covalently bonded atoms found as a separate, distinct, independent unit  
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Chemical Symbol   A one, two, or three -letter representation for an element  
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Compound   A substance that consists of atoms of different elements chemically bonded together  
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Chemical Formula   Chemical symbols arranged to represent molecules or formula units that make up compounds  
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Chemical subscript   A number written at the lower right of a chemical symbol, indicating the number of atoms or groups of atoms in a chemical formula  
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Coefficient   A number that appears in front of a chemical formula and indicates how many atoms, ions, molecules, or formula units are present  
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Energy   The ability to do work  
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Thermodynamics   The study of energy transformations in chemical and physical processes  
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Law of conservation of mass energy   The physical law stating that during ordinary physical and chemical processes, mass is neither created nor destroyed, only converted from one form to another  
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First law of thermodynamics   The physical law stating that energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can be converted form one form to another  
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Entropy   The measure of randomness or lack of orderliness in a system.  
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Second law of thermodynamics   The physical law that applies to natural processes unaffected by outside manipulation by any intelligence and states that during any energy transformation, some energy goes to unusable form  
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System   A portion of the universe under study  
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Kinetic energy   Energy produced from motion  
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Internal energy   The sum of the potential and kinetic energies of an object's component particles  
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Temperature   A measure of the average kinetic energy of the atoms, molecules, or ions in matter  
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Thermal energy   The measure if the total kinetic energy of the molecules or ions in matter  
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Heat   A measurement of the total amount of thermal energy transferred from one substance to another  
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Exothermic   A term describing a process that releases heat energy  
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Endothermic   A term describing a process that absorbs heat energy  
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Celsius Scale   Divides the range from the freezing point of water to the boiling point of water  
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Kelvin scale   Divides the range from the freezing point of water to the boiling point of water.  
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Absolute zero   The theoretical temperature at which all molecular motion ceases  
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Third law of thermodynamics   Physical law stating that it is impossible to reach absolute zero  
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Joule   SI unit of work and energy  
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Calorie   Equivalent to the kilocalorie; used in reference to the energy content of foods  
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Kinetic Molecular theory   A theory stating that the particles of matter are in constant random motion and that the properties of matter are consequences of that motion  
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Solid   State of matter in which the particles have relatively little energy and cannot overcome the attractive forces  
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Liquids   A state of matter in which the particles have enough energy to partially overcome the attractive forces  
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Gas   A state of matter in which the particles have enough energy to overcome the attractive forces  
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Plasma   Most abundant form of matter in the universe, consisting of a gaseous sea of high  
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Bose Einstein Condensate   The state of matter that exists at temperature close to absolute zero  
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Quark gluon plasma   A high-temperature state of matter that forms when nuclei collide with such energy that their protons and neutrons are broken down into a "soup" of elementary particles called quarks and gluons  
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Condensation   Physical change from the gaseous state to the liquid state  
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Vaporization   A physical change from the liquid state to the vapor or gaseous stage.  
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Freezing   Physical change from the liquid state to the solid state  
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Melting   Physical Change from the solid to the liquid state  
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Sublimation   Physical change from the solid directly to the gaseous state  
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Deposition   Physical change directly from a gaseous state to a solid  
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