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Chapter 10 Vocab
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02/03/2012

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Physical Property
Definition
Any characteristic of a material, such as state, color, and volume, that can be observed or measured without changing or attempting to change the material.
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Matter
Definition
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
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Physical change
Definition
Change in which the properties of a substance change but the identity of the substance is always the same.
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Density
Definition
Measurable physical property that can by found by dividing the mass of an object by its volume.
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State of Matter
Definition
Physical property that is dependent on both temperature and pressure and occurs in four forms - solid, liquid, gas, or plasma.
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Melting Point
Definition
Temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid.
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Boiling Point
Definition
Temperature at which a substance in a liquid state becomes a gas.
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Specific heat
Definition
Amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of a substance by 1 degree Celsius.
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Chemical change
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Change in which the identity at a substance changes due to its chemical properties and forms a new substance or substances.
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Chemical property
Definition
Any characteristic, such as the ability to burn, that allows a substance to undergo a change that results in a new substance.
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Solubility
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Describes how much solute dissolves in a given amount of solvent.
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Law of Conservation of Mass
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States that the mass of the products of the chemical change is always the same as the mass of what you started with.
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Dichotomous key
Definition
Tool used to determine identity.
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Solvent
Definition
What is dissolved.
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Solute
Definition
What you are dissolving.
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