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1
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What is a element?

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A Substance made from one type of atom.

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What is a proton?

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A positively charged particle that makes up part of an atom.

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What is a neutron?

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A neutrally charged particles that makes up part of an atom

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What is an electron?

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A negatively charged particles that is part of an atom.

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5
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How many different types of atoms are there?

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118

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What is a chemical mixture?

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Two or more substances not chemical bonded together which can be separate.

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What is a chemical compound?

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Two or more elements chemically bonded after a chemical reaction.

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8
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What are the five hints for a chemical reaction taking place?

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1: Fizzing or bubbling
2: Change in colour
3: Change in odour
4: Change in temperature
5: A solid is formed

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9
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What determines what element something is?

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The number of protons the atom has.

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What are the reactants in a chemical reaction?

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The materials you start with in a chemical reaction.

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What are the products in a chemical reaction?

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The materials you end with in a chemical reaction.

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What does aqueous mean?

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It means dissolved in water or a solution.

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What is a word equation?

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An equation that contains only words.

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What does dissolving mean?

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When a solute is broken down in a solvent to form a solution.

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What does solute mean?

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Typcally a solid that is dissolved to form a solutions but liquids and gasses can be solutes aswell.

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What does solvent mean?

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A solvent is any substance, usually liquid, which is capable of dissolving one or several substances, thus creating a solution.

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What does solution mean?

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A solution is where a solute is dissolved in a solvent.

17
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What does soluble mean?

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It can be dissolved.

18
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What does insoluble mean?

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It can’t be dissolved

19
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What is the melting point of a substance?

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The temperature at which the substance turns from a solid to a liquid and vice versa.

20
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What is the boiling point of a substance?

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The temperature at which the substance turns from a liquid to a gas and vice verse

21
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What is distillation?

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The process of separating two or more liquids using that fact they have different boiling points.

22
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What is decanting?

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The process of separating two or more liquids using that fact that they are immiscible.

23
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What does immiscible mean?

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When two liquids are incapable of forming a homogeneous mixture when mixed.

24
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What does miscible mean?

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When two or more liquids are capable of forming a homogeneous mixture when mixed.

25
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What does homogeneous mean?

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When a substance is identical wherever you sample it.

26
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How do you separate an insoluble solid from a liquid?

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Filtering.

27
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How do you separate a soluble solid from a liquid?

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Evaporation or crystallisation.

28
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What is the shell in an atom?

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They are the rings around the nucleus of an atom where the electrons are.

29
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What is the nucleus of an atom?

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It is the centre of the atoms where protons and neutrons are.

30
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What is the atomic number of an element?

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It is the number which denotes the amount of protons and electrons that are in an atom/ element.

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What is the mass number of an element?

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The relative combined mass of the protons and neutrons.

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What is the charge and relative mass of a proton?

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Its charge is +1 and it has a relative mass of 1.

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What is the charge and relative mass of a neutron?

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Its charge is 0 and it has a relative mass of 1.

34
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What is the charge and relative mass of an electron?

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its charge is -1 and it has a relative mass of ~0 or 0.000054.

35
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What is an isotope?

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An atom with the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons, different mass number same atomic number.

36
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What is the relative mass?

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It’s the weighted average of the mass of all the natural occuring isotopes with an element.

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