vocab
anything that has mass and takes up space
What is mass?
the branch of science that investigates the composition and properties of matter and how they interact with each other
a characteristic of a substance that can be observed without changing its chemical makeup.
What is a physical property?
an educated guess or proposed explanation for an occurrence that will undergo further investigation and testing.
What is a hypothesis?
the basic building blocks of matter
What are atoms?
a characteristic of a substance that can only be observed through a chemical change
What is a chemical property?
how compact a solid, liquid, or gas is
What is density?
a specific type of atom
the number of protons of an element, it identifies the element and determines its place on the periodic table.
how well a substance (solute) will dissolve into another substance (solvent)
what is solubility?
A substance that is made of atoms or molecules that cannot be broken down without changing it into something else
What is a chemical?
the weight of the number of protons plus the number of neurons of an atom; it is an average of all the element's known isotopes and can be found on the periodic table
What is atomic mass?
a group of two or more atoms joined together
what is a molecule?