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The following words need to be defined and understood (including examples):
Steps of Scientific method
- Hypothesis
- Controlled Experiment
- Theory
- Law
Particle or Base Unit of Pure substance
- Pure substance
- Element/atom
- Compound
- Chemical formulas
- Molecules for Molecular compounds
- Ions for Ionic compounds
Types of Elements (see Periodic Table)
- Metal
- Non-metal
- Semi-metal or metalloid
- How on Periodic Table you can tell
Types of ways elements/atoms group together
- covalent bonds (for molecular compounds) - Non-metal and Non-metal
- "ionic bond" (for ionic compounds) - Metal and non-metals
- "metallic bond" (for metal) - metal and metal (often is same metal but can be different)
Phases or States of Matter
Types of Change
- Chemical change (base unit / particles rearrange into new groupings)
- Chemical property
- Reactant
- Product
- Law of Conservation of Mass
- Physical Change (base unit / particles DO NOT rearrange)
- Physical property
- Mixture (two types)
- Heterogeneous mixture
- Homogeneous mixture (called a solution)
- Solute
- Solvent
- Aqueous - if solvent is water
- Example of physical separation technique - distillation ( or filtering)
Types of Properties
- Physical property
- Chemical property
Areas of study in chemistry
- Organic chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Physical Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry
Extra Vocabulary Terms
- Science
- Technology
- Pure Chemistry
- Applied Chemistry