NSCI 1321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sodium Chloride, Decimal Mark, Scientific Notation
24 Dec 2016
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Mass- the quantity of matter in a material. Matter is the general term for the material things around us; we can define it as whatever occupies space and can be perceived by our senses. Solid: characterized by rigidity; fixed shape and volume. Liquid: relatively incompressible fluid; fixed volume, no fixed shape. Gas: compressible fluid; no fixed volume, no fixed shape. A change in the form of matter but not in its chemical identity. A change in which one or more kinds of matter are transformed into a new kind of matter or several new kinds of matter (example rusting) A characteristic that can be observed for a material without changing its chemical identity. A characteristic of a material involving its chemical change. The ability of iron to react with oxygen to produce rust. A kind of matter that cannot be separated into other kinds of matter by any physical process.
