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Atoms, the building blocks of matter

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law of conservation of mass   mass is neither created nore destroyed during ordinary chemical reactions or physical changes  
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law of definite proportions   a chemical compound contains the same elements in exactly the same proportions by mass regardless of the size of the sample  
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law of multiple proportions   If two or more different compounds are composed of the same two elements, then the ratio of the masses of the second element combined with a certain mass of the first element is always a ratio of small whole numbers  
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atom   the smallest particle of an element that retains the chemical properties of that element  
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atomic number   the number of protons in the nucleus of each atom of that element  
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isotopes   atoms of the same element that have different masses  
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nuclide   a general term for any isotope of any element  
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atomic mass unit   amu, 1/2 the mass of a carbon-12 atom  
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average atomic mass   weighted average of the atomic masses of the naturally occurring isotopes of an element  
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mole   amount of a substance that contains as many partiles as there are atoms in exactly 12g of carbon-12  
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molar mass   mass of one mole of a pure substance  
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