Chemistry Midterm-Section 1
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- chemistry
- the study of matter and the changes it undergoes
- atoms
- anything that has mass and occupies space and that is made up of almost infinitesimally small building blocks
- molecules
- when atoms combine together
- solid
- not compressible, has a fixed volume and shape of its own
- liquid
- not compressible, assumes the shape but not the volume of its container
- gas
- highly compressible, assumes the shape and the volume of its container
- element
- cant be broken down into simpler substances
- compound
- fixed composition, but capable of being broken down into elements
- mixture
- variable composition of elements, compounds, or both