7 Chemistry Glossary

Match the following terms to their definitions

• solvent dissolved in water

• aqueous solution

• temperature when liquid turns into gas

• melting

• gas turning into liquid

• condensation

• solid turning into liquid

• boiling point

• polluted or impure

• contaminated

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

• distilling

• separating mixtures of boiling points

• diffusion

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

• dissolve

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

• dilution

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

• decanting

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• state of matter with no fixed shape or volume

• filter

• remove impurities with tiny holes

• gas

• increase in size

• expand

• change from liquid to solid

• freeze

• liquid that has passed through a filter

• filtrate

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• measure of the amount of matter in an object

• mass

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

• heterogeneous mixture

• anything that has mass and occupies space

• homogeneous mixture

• substance with definite shape and volume

• matter

• substance with definite volume but no definite shape

• liquid

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• material settled to bottom of a liquid

• sewerage

• remaining material left on filter

• residue

• waste disposal system

• particle model

• representatio of matter

• sediment

• solid to liquid

• melting

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• mixture of solvent in a solute

• insoluble

• substance dissolved in solvent

• solvent

• not able to dissolve in a liquid

• solute

• able to dissolve in a liquid

• soluble (remember ABLE)

• liquid that solute dissolves in

• solution

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• amount of space an object occupies

• emulsion

• solid, gas, liquid, plasma

• states of matter

• insoluble substance in a liquid/gas

• solid

• fixed shape and volume

• volume

• particles dispersed in a medium

• suspension