What is matter?
Anything that has mass and takes up space
When metals lose electrons they become_______.
cations
Acids
How do you write a skeleton equation?
Replace words with chemical formulas
What is the study of carbon containing compounds and their properties?
Organic chemistry
Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
A precipitate is the process of forming what?
a solid from solution
When acids and bases react
neautralization
Is H2 + O2 -> 2H2O balanced?
No
An organic compound that contains only elements carbon and hydrogen
hydrocarbon
Name one characteristic of flammable and combustible materials
Can burn or explode
What are elements with more that one stable ion called?
Multivalent
Who proposed a theory of acids and bases?
Sweedish chemist Svante Arrhenius
The numbr of molecules in one mole for any substance
Avagadro's number
6.02 x 1023
What are the three particles of an atom?
Protons, neutrons, electrons
How do we name binary compounds?
Name cation first, then anion with ending "ide"
To express the acidic or basic nature of a solution chemists use what?
pH scale
When hydrocarbons are burned in a plentiful supply of oxygen it is called __________ and the products are ___________.
Complete combustion
Carbon dioxide
Water vapour
An atom of the same element that has a different mass
What is an isotope?
When compared to the "ate" ion, the "ite" ion has how many less oxygen?
one
A force acting between molecules
Intermolecular
Atomic molar mass