Smallest version of an element
atom
Elements that are on the right side of the periodic table
nonmetals
When a metal bonds with a nonmetal, what is formed?
What is an ionic bond?
States that matter cannot be created or destroyed
What is law of conservation of mass?
If you have four hydrogens on the reactants side, how many do you need on the products side?
4
smallest version of a compound
molecule
elements on the left/middle of the periodic table
What are metals?
When nonmetal bonds with another nonmetal what is formed?
What is a covalent bond?
The numbers in front of the molecules we use in balancing equations?
What are coefficients?
The arrow in a chemical equation stands for?
What is yield? Like an equal sign in math equations.
Electrons on the outermost energy level
valence
A + B -> AB
composition/synthesis
What kind of bond shares electrons?
What is a covalent bond?
Like mathematical equations that show reactants and products
What are chemical equations?
two of the same elements bonded together.
Ex. H2
diatomic molecule
____ H2O -> 2 H2 + O2
2
AB - > A + B
decomposition
What kind of bond is formed from 2 oppositely charged atoms?
What is an ionic bond?
What is on the left side of Chemical equations?
reactants
What is on the right side of the chemical equation?
AX + BY -> AY + BX
Double Displacement / Double Replacement
AX + B -> A + BX
Single Replacement
In an ionic bond, what kind of atom gives up electrons?
What is a metal?
What must be equal in a chemical equation?
What is reactants and products?
a small number written to the right and slightly below an element’s symbol in a chemical formula.