Chemistry Vocabulary

A study of composition, structures and properties of matter, the processes that matter undergoes, and the energy changes that accompany these changes.

• Chemistry

• Mass

• Matter

• Extensive property

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The measure of the amount of matter (Measured with a balance)

• Mass

• Matter

• Atom

• Element

Anything that has mass and takes up space

• matter

• mass

• compound

• element

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the smallest unit of matter that maintains the chemical identity of that element.

• atom

• mass

• compound

• element

A pure substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances.

• Element

• Atom

• Compound

• Matter

A substance made up of two or more different chemical elements combined in a fixed ratio

• Compounds

• Liquid

• Atom

• Element

Depends on the amount of matter present

• Extensive Property

• Intensive property

do not Depends on the amount of matter present

• Extensive Property

• Intensive property

Can be observed or measured without changing the identity of the substance

• Physical Property

• Chemical Property

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Relates to a substances ability to undergo changes that transform it into a different substance.

• Physical Property

• Chemical Property

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