Vocab
The ability to do work
What is Energy?
These are the simplest particles of an element.
What is an atom?
The substance dissolved in the solvent
What is the solute?
The amount of energy needed to start a reaction.
What is activation energy?
Water usually has this pH
What is pH of 7?
Atoms of an element that have different number of neutrons
What is an Isotope?
The region around the nucleus that indicates the location of the electrons
What are orbitals?
The substance in which the solute is dissolved.
What is a solvent?
Bonds formed when two atoms share electrons.
What are covalent bonds?
These are used to neutralize acids to form salts and water.
What are bases?
The force of gravity on an object.
What is weight?
Average atomic mass is the average of all of an elements what?
What is isotopes?
Solutions can be in what three states of matter?
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
A protein or RNA molecule that speeds up metabolic reactions
What is an enzyme?
Chemical substances that neutralize small amounts of either an acid or a base added to a solution and are important for controlling pH of living things.
What are buffers?
A compound having two different charges on opposite end
What is polar?
These two particles are found in the nucleus of an atom.
What is protons and neutrons?
Amount of solute dissolved in a fixed amount of solvent
What is a concentration?
These bonds form when one atom transfers electrons to another.
What are ionic bonds?
Another name for a basic substance.
What is alkaline?
Attractive forces that hold atoms together
What is a Chemical Bond?
This particle in an atom has a neutral charge.
What are neutrons?
What solutions are universally important to living things?
What are Aqueous Solutions?
These reactions always occur together.
What are redox reactions?
These bonds account for water’s unique properties.
What are hydrogen bonds?
Anything that occupies space and has mass.
What is matter?
These 4 elements makes up 90% of the mass of living things.
What are oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen?
A solution that no more salute can be dissolved into.
What is a saturated solution?
Reduces the amount of activation energy needed
What is a catalyst?
Ponds and Lakes freeze from the top down. This is does what for the water below it?
What is insulates the water?