Friday Vocab 09/01/17 Quiz Flashcards
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Malleability
The ability of a material to be beaten into a thin sheet or to be shaped without breaking
Mass
Material that has mass and takes up some amount of space
Chemical
An element or compound
Volume (matter)
The amount of space an object or substance takes up
Conductor
A material that transmits energy
Crystal
A solid material made up of molecules that are arranged in repeating patterns
Plasma
The fourth state of matter in which the particles of a gas become highly charged (ionized)
Solubility
The ability of a substance to be dissolved in a liquid
Base
A substance with a pH greater than 7
Matter
Material that has mass and takes up some amount of space
React
To act because of something that happened
Melting Point
The temperature at which a solid turns into a liquid
Chemical Reaction
A chemical change; a process that changes substances into new substances
Density
An object’s mass divided by its volume; a measure of how many particles are packed together into a certain amount of space
Temperature
A measure of the average kinetic energy of the atoms in a system, used to express thermal energy in degrees
Physical Change
A change in matter that does not affect its chemical composition
Freeze
To change a substance from liquid to solid by lowering its temperature
Property
A characteristic or quality of a material
Noble Gas
One of six elemental gasses that does not naturally react with other elements
Physical Property
A characteristic that can be observed (intensive), such as texture, color, odor, melting point, boiling point, density, or measured (extensive) such as mass, length, volume, that is used to describe matter and can be observed or measured without changing its composition
Chemical Change
A chemical reaction; a process that changes substances into new substances (related word: chemical reaction)
Acid
Any substance with a pH less than 7
Substance
The physical matter of which living or nonliving things are composed
Hardness
A measure of how difficult it is to scratch a mineral: Diamonds are the hardest mineral. They have a hardness scale rating of 10.