Lab vocabulary
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meganrose133 on February 25, 2011
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lab 14 15 and 16
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Atom | The smallest unit of matter |
| Atomic Theory | The idea that matter is composed of atoms |
| Alchemy | A system of philosophy that dealt with the mystery of life and the formation of inanimate substances. |
| Chemistry | The study of matter and its composition |
| Democritus | the first person to theorize about atoms |
| Analysis | The separation of a substance to determine its composition |
| Blue Vitriol | CuS04 |
| Bulk Matter | Visible Matter |
| Product | The new substances involves in a chemical reaction |
| Reactant | Any substances involved in a chemical reaction |
| Substance | A compound that can be broken down into smaller parts |
| Synthesis | Combining of parts of elements to form a compound. |
| Word Equation | Words represent the chemicals in a chemical equation. |
| Chemical Equation | A symbolic representation of a chemical reaction using chemical formulas. |
| Components | Any number of substances that makes up a chemical system. |
| Conservation of Mass | In a chemical reaction, mass is neither created nor destroyed, in it conserved. |
| Constant Properties | Pure substances have fixes dimensions. |
| Definite Properties | Number of products in a chemical reaction equals the number of reactants. |
| Reaction | When one or more things change into new substances |
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