Vocab 1
Solid to liquid
What is melting?
Liquid to solid
What is freezing?
Liquid to gas
What is vaporization?
Gas to liquid
What is condensation?
Solid to gas
What is sublimation?
Gas to plasma
What is ionization?
Gas to solid
What is deposition?
Plasma to gas
What is recombination?
The degree to which a substance is biologically harmful.
What is toxicity?
Emitting or relating to the emission of ionizing radiation or particles.
What is radioactive?
The ability of a substance to be beaten into thin sheets.
What is malleability?
The mass of a substance divided by its volume D = Mass/Volume.
What is density?
A measurement of the gravitational force of attraction of the earth acting on an object.
What is weight?
How easily a substance is scratched.
What is hardness/softness?
Shininess of a surface
What is luster?
The ability of a substance to be drawn into thin wires.
What is ductility?
A measurement of the amount of space a substance occupies.
What is volume?
A measurement of the amount of matter present in an object.
What is mass?
Properties that describe how matter changes into a completely new, different substance.
What is chemical property?
pH of or less than 7.
What is acidic?
A substance that oxidizes another substance, especially one that supports the combustion of fuel.
What is an oxidizer?
A physical property that does not change with the amount of matter.
What is intrinsic property?
Any property that is measurable, whose value describes a state of a physical system.
What is physical property?
pH of or greater than 7.
What is basic?
A property that depends on the amount of matter in a sample and that is not essential or inherent.
What is extensive property?