7 Chemistry Glossary

Match the following terms to their definitions

• temperature when liquid turns into gas

• boiling point

• solid turning into liquid

• contaminated

• polluted or impure

• condensation

• gas turning into liquid

• aqueous solution

• solvent dissolved in water

• melting

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• the process by which particles move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration

• decanting

• separating mixtures of boiling points

• diffusion

• the process of reducing the concentration of a solute in a solution

• dilution

• separating liquids from solids by pouring off the liquid without disturbing the solid

• distilling

• the process of a solute becoming incorporated into a solvent to form a solution

• dissolve

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• state of matter with no fixed shape or volume

• filtrate

• change from liquid to solid

• filter

• remove impurities with tiny holes

• freeze

• liquid that has passed through a filter

• gas

• increase in size

• expand

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• anything that has mass and occupies space

• liquid

• state of matter that flows and takes the shape of its container

• heterogeneous mixture

• substance with definite volume but no definite shape

• matter

• measure of the amount of matter in an object

• mass

• substance with definite shape and volume

• homogeneous mixture

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• remaining material left on filter

• melting

• solid to liquid

• particle model

• representatio of matter

• sewerage

• material settled to bottom of a liquid

• residue

• waste disposal system

• sediment

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• not able to dissolve in a liquid

• solution

• substance dissolved in solvent

• insoluble

• able to dissolve in a liquid

• soluble (remember ABLE)

• liquid that solute dissolves in

• solute

• mixture of solvent in a solute

• solvent

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• amount of space an object occupies

• solid

• particles dispersed in a medium

• suspension

• solid, gas, liquid, plasma

• states of matter

• fixed shape and volume

• emulsion

• insoluble substance in a liquid/gas

• volume