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Compound | Substance formed when the atoms of two or more elements join chemically |
States of matter | Basic forms in which matter exists, including solid, liquid, and gas |
Element | Substance that cannot be changed or separated into other kinds of substances |
Nucleus | Atom's center, which is made of protons and neutrons |
Chemical property | Characteristic that describes how a substance changes into a different substance |
Mixture | Two or more elements or compounds mixed together, but not joined chemically |
Property | Characteristic that describes matter |
Physical property | Characteristic of a substance or an object that can be observed without changing the substance into a different substance |
Matter | Anything that has mass and takes up space |
Atom | Smallest particle of an element that has the characteristics of that element |