| Term | Definition |
|---|
| physical property | something that you can measure and observe and it doesn't change |
| chemical property | how something reacts to something else and it changes |
| density | how heavy or light or how compact something is |
| physical change | change in the appearance or shape of the material |
| chemical change | material reacts to become something else |
| law of conservation of mass | you can't create or destroy mass only change it and you have to go through a chemical change |
| solution | one thing is dissolved into another |
| solute | the thing being dissolved |
| solvent | the thing doing the dissolving |
| polar solvents/solutes | have partially charged atoms |
| non polar solvents/solutes | don't have partially charged atoms |
| unsaturated | more solute can be dissolved |
| saturated | nothing more can be dissolved |
| supersaturated | holds more solute than normal due to higher temperature |
| solubility | how much solute can be dissolved by a solvent at a certain temperature |
| indicator | chemical that changes color in the presence of an acid or base |
| pH | measures the concentration of H-ions the +ions the more acidic the +ions the more basic, can be measured by the pH scale |
| pH scale | measures the strength of acids and bases, the range is 0-14 |
| acid | below 7 on pH scale |
| base | above 7 on the pH scale |
| neutral | 7 on the pH scale |
| neutralization | reaction between an acid and base and when they cancel out |
| salt | a compound that is formed by an acid and base canceling out |
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