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Chemistry Vocab #51-75

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Calorie   A unit of heat; the heat required to raise the temperature of 1gram of water to 1 degree Celsius; 4.19 Joules of energy.  
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Carbohydrate   A compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, such as sugar, a starch, or a cellulose, formed by green plants and used as a source of food.  
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Catalyst   A substance or combination of substances which accelerate a chemical reaction without being used up itself.  
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Cathode   A negatively charged, or electron rich, electrode.  
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Cation   An ion attracted to the cathode of an electrolytic cell; a positive ion.  
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Caustic   Capable of converting some types of animal and vegetable matter into soluble materials by chemical action.  
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Cement   A substance made from limestone and clay, which after mixing with water, sets to a hard mass.  
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Cent   Metric prefix meaning 0.01.  
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Centigrade Scale   The Celsius temperature scale.  
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Chemical Bond   The linkage between atoms produced by transfer or sharing of electrons.  
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Chemical Changes   A charge in which new substances with new properties are formed.  
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Chemical Equilibrium   The state of balance attained in a reversible chemical action in which the rates of the opposing reactions are equal.  
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Chemical Formula   A shorthand method of representing the composition of substances using chemical symbols and numerical subscriptions.  
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Chemical Kinetics   The branch of chemistry concerned with the sequence of steps by which chemicals reactions occur and the rate at which they proceed.  
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Chemical Properties   Those properties which pertain to the behavior of a material in changes in which its identity is altered.  
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Chemical Symbol   Either a single capital letter, or a capital letter and a small letter used together, as an abbreviation for (1) and element (2) an atom of an element (3) a mole of atoms of an element.  
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Chemistry   The science dealing with the structure and composition of substances and the changes in composition which these substances undergo.  
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Chemistry, Organic   The chemistry of carbon compounds.  
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Colloidal State   A state of subdivision of matter ranging between the dimensions of ordinary molecules and microscopic particles.  
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Combustion   Any chemical action which occurs so rapidly that both noticeable heat and light are produced.  
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Common-ion Effect   The shift in equilibrium which occurs when a substance is added to a solution of a second substance with which it has a common ion, the volume being kept constant.  
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Composition Reaction   A chemical reaction in which 2 or more substances combine to form a more complex substance.  
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Compound   A substance which can be decomposed into two or more simpler substances by ordinary chemical means.  
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Concentrated   Containing a relatively large amount of solute.  
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Condensation   (1) The process of converting a gas into a liquid or solid (2) Increasing the size of very small particles up to colloidal size.  
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