Chem Honors Chapter 12 Vocab
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- properties of water
-
relatively high density
relative incompressibilty
ability to diffuse - surface tension
- a force that tends to pull adjacent parts of a liquid's surface together, decreasing surface area to the smallest possible size
- capillary action
- the attraction of the surface of a liquid to the surface of a solid
- vaporization
- liquid/solid->gas
- evaporation
- particles from a nonboiling liquid enter the gas state
- freezing/solidification
- liquid->solid
- crystalline solids
- particles arranged in an orderly geometric repeating pattern
- amorphus solid
- particles arranged randomly
- melting
- solid ->liquid
- supercooled liquids
- substances that retain certain liquid properties even at temperatures at which they appear to be solid
- crystal structure
- 3 dimensional arrangement of particles of a crystal
- unit cell
- the smallest unit that shows the 3 dimensional pattern of the entire lattice
- equilibrium
- a dynamic condition in which 2 opposing changes occur at equal rates in a closed system
- phase
- any part of the system that has uniform composition and properties
- condensation
- gas->liquid