VOCAB #7

PHYSICAL & CHEMICAL CHANGES

PHYSICAL CHANGE
A change that affects the size, shape or color of a substance
but does not affect its composition

PHASE CHANGE
A physical change in state of matter due to a change in
temperature. In which the matters identity stays the same.

DISSOLVING
A Physical change; occurs when a material has solubility
(ability to dissolve)

CHEMICAL CHANGE
A change in matter in which the substances that make up the
matter change into new substance

PRECIPITATE
An insoluble solid that emerges from a liquid solution during
a chemical change

LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MASS

States that mass is neither created or destroyed in an
ordinary chemical reaction

SUBSTANCE
Matter with a composition that is always the same

MIXTURE
Matter that can very in composition

COMPOUND
A substance that contains at least two different elements

MOLECULE
Formed when two or more atoms join together chemically

BALANCE THIS EQUATION

2NaCl -> 2Na + __Cl2
Na=2 Cl=2
Na=2 Cl=2

BALANCE THIS EQUATION

__N2 + __H2 -> __NH3