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matter | Anything that has mass and occupies space. |
physical property | A characteristic of a substance that can be observed without changing the substance into something else. |
chemical property | A characteristic of a substance that can be observed without changing the substance into something else. |
element | A characteristic of a substance that can be observed without changing the substance into something else. |
compound | A substance made of two or more elements chemically combined in a set ratio. |
mixture | Two or more substances that are mixed together but not chemically combined. |
physical change | A change that alters the form or appearance of a substance but does not make the material into another substance. |
chemical change | A change in matter that produces new substances. |
substance | A single kind of matter that has distinct physical and chemical properties. |
energy conversion | The process of changing one form of energy into another. |
state | A form of matter; solid, liquid, or gas. |
weight | A measure of the force of gravity on an object. |
mass | A measure of how much matter is in an object. |
International System of Units (SI) | A system of measurement based on multiples of ten and on established measures of mass, length, and time. |
volume | The amount of space that matter occupies. |
density | The measurement of how much mass of a substance is contained in a given volume. |
atom | The smallest particle of an element. |
nucleus | The central core of an atom, containing protons and usually neutrons. |
proton | Small, positively charged particle in the nucleus of an atom. |
neutron | Small uncharged particle in the nucleus of an atom. |
electron | A tiny, negatively charged, high-energy particle that moves in the space outside the nucleus of an atom. |
chemical bond | The force that holds two atoms together. |
molecule | A particle made of two or more atoms bonded together. |
chemical symbol | A chemical symbol is a notation of one to three letters representing an element. |
chemical equation | An equation that describes what happens in a chemical reaction. |