7 Chemistry Glossary

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• solid turning into liquid

• boiling point

• temperature when liquid turns into gas

• condensation

• solvent dissolved in water

• aqueous solution

• gas turning into liquid

• contaminated

• polluted or impure

• melting

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• separating liquids from solids by pouring off the liquid without disturbing the solid

• dissolve

• the process of a solute becoming incorporated into a solvent to form a solution

• distilling

• the process by which particles move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration

• decanting

• separating mixtures of boiling points

• dilution

• the process of reducing the concentration of a solute in a solution

• diffusion

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• liquid that has passed through a filter

• filtrate

• change from liquid to solid

• freeze

• increase in size

• gas

• state of matter with no fixed shape or volume

• expand

• remove impurities with tiny holes

• filter

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• anything that has mass and occupies space

• homogeneous mixture

• state of matter that flows and takes the shape of its container

• liquid

• substance with definite volume but no definite shape

• matter

• substance with definite shape and volume

• heterogeneous mixture

• measure of the amount of matter in an object

• mass

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• remaining material left on filter

• particle model

• material settled to bottom of a liquid

• melting

• representatio of matter

• residue

• waste disposal system

• sewerage

• solid to liquid

• sediment

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• liquid that solute dissolves in

• insoluble

• mixture of solvent in a solute

• solute

• able to dissolve in a liquid

• solution

• not able to dissolve in a liquid

• solvent

• substance dissolved in solvent

• soluble (remember ABLE)

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• insoluble substance in a liquid/gas

• volume

• particles dispersed in a medium

• emulsion

• amount of space an object occupies

• states of matter

• solid, gas, liquid, plasma

• suspension

• fixed shape and volume

• solid