Chapter 3: Solids, Liquids, and Gasses Flashcards
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Has a define shape and a define volume.
Solid
Solids that are made up of crystals.
Crystalline Solids
The particles are not arranged in a regular pattern.
Amorphous Solids
Definite volume but no shape of its own.
Liquid
Another term for liquid, meaning “a substance that flows”.
Fluid
Results of an inward pull among the molecules of a liquid that brings the molecules on the surface closer together.
Surface Tension
Liquid’s resistance to flowing.
Viscosity
A state of matter with no definite shape or volume.
Gas
The change in state from a solid to a liquid.
Melting
Melting that occurs at a specific temperature.
Melting Point
Change of state from liquid to solid.
Freezing
Change from a liquid to a gas.
Vaporization
Vaporization that takes place only on the surface of a liquid.
Evaporation
Occurs when a liquid changes to a gas below and on the surface (another kind of vaporization)
Boiling
The temperature at which a liquid boils.
Boiling Point
The change from the gaseous to the liquid state of matter (opposite of vaporization)
Condensation
The change in state from a solid directly to a gas without passing through the liquid state.
Sublimation
Force of its outward push divided by the area of the walls of the container.
Pressure
Relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas.
Boyle’s Law
A principle that describes the relationship between the temperature and volume of a gas at constant pressure.
Charles’s Law
A diagram that tells how 2 variables are related.
Graph
The (0,0) point on a line graph.
Origin
A graph of two variables is a straight line passing through the origin.
Directly Proportional
When a graph of two variables forms this kind of curve.
Vary Inversely
