| A | B |
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| Organic | term used to describe a compound containing both carbon and hydrogen |
| Inorganic | term used to describe a compound lacking both carbon and hydrogen |
| Solution | a mixture in which the individual molecules or ions of a substance are uniformly distributed |
| Solute | the substance dissolved in a solvent |
| Solvent | substance in which a material (solute) is dissolved in |
| neutral | pH of 7 |
| Acid | a substance that releases H+ in water; below 7 on a pH scale |
| Base | a substance that releases OH- in water; above 7 on the pH scale |
| pH | the measure that determines if a substance is a acid or a base; scale runs from 0-14 |
| products | substances found to the right of an equation arrow |
| reactant | substances found to the left of an equation arrow |
| Polar compound | a molecule, like water, with an unbalanced charge distribution |
