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Alloy   A substance made by or conbining two or more metals  
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Biodiesel   Diesel fuel made from plant materials  
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Cement   A building material made from limestone and clay mixed with water  
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Compound   A substance made from two or more types of atom  
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Concrete   A building material made from sand, cement and crushded rock mixed with water  
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Convection currents   the flow of a due to differences in temperature.(how tectonic plates move.  
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Core   the central part of earth below the mantle  
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Cracking   Breaking a molecule apart using heat  
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Crust   the outermost layer of the earth  
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E-Number   A number given to a food additive in order to identify it.  
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Element   A substance made up of only one type of atom  
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Emulsifier   A substance which stops the two liquids in an emulsion separating  
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Emulsion   A mixture of tiny droplets of one liquid into another liquid  
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Food additive   A substance added to food to improve its flavour, texture or shelf life  
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Fractional Distillation   A way of separatinga mixture of substances according to their differeent boiling points  
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Fossil fuel   Coal, oil or gas or any other fuel formed long ago from the fossilised remains of dead plants or creatures  
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Gasohol   A mixture of petrol (gasoline) and ethanol  
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Haematite   An ore containing iron combined with oxygen  
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Hydrocarbon   A compound containing only carbon and hydrogen  
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Mantle   The layer of the earth between the crust and the core.  
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Monomer   A molecule that can combine with other, similar, molecules to form a polymer  
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Mortar   Mixture of sand, cement and water used to hold building materials together  
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Ore   Rocks that contain enough metal to make it economical to extact the metal  
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Polymer   A substance consisting of very large molecules made of smaller identical molecules called monomers  
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Quick lime   Heated lime stone  
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Saturated   A hydrocarbon which contains as many hydrogen atoms as possible in each molecule  
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Slag   the waste produced when iron is made in a blast furnace(always goes on top)  
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Tectonic plates   Huge sections of the earths crust and upper mantle  
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Thermal decomposition   splitting a substance using heat  
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Unsaturated   A hydrocarbon which cointains a carbon-carbon double bond  
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