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chap 15science vocab
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Question | Answer |
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A change of one substance to another | chemical change |
a characteristic of a substance that indicates whether it can undergo a certain chemical change | chemical property |
a type of mixture with particles that are larger than those in solutions but not heavy enough to settle out. | colloid |
a substance in which the atoms of two or more elements are combined in a fixed proportion | compound |
process for separating substances in a mixture by evaporating a liquid and recondensing its vapor | distillation |
when all the atoms in a substance have the same identity | element |
a mixture in which different materials can be distinguished easily | heterogeneous mixture |
contains two or more gaseous, liquid, or solid substances blended evenly throughout | homogeneous mixture |
the mass of all substances that are present before a chemical change equals the mass of all substances that remain after the change | law of conservation of mass |
a change in size, shape, or state of matter | physical change |
any characteristic of a material that you can observe without changing the identity of the substances that make up the material | physical property |
homogeneous mixture of particles so small that they cannot be seen with a microscope and will never settle to the bottom of their container | solution |
a type of matter with a fixed composition | substance |
heterogeneous mixture containing a liquid in which visible particles settle | suspension |
scattering of light by colloidal particles | Tyndall effect |