Changing States of Matter 1.3 Flashcards
Evaporate
To change from a liquid to a gas
Condense
To change from a gas to a liquid
Melt
To change a solid to a liquid
Water Vapor
The gas state of water
Freeze
To change from liquid to solid
Element
A pure substance that cannot be broken down into any simpler substance
Compound
Any substance that is formed by the chemical combination of 2 or more elements and acts like a single substance
Atom
The smallest unit of an element that retains the properties of that element
Proton
The tiny bundles of energy by means of which light travels
Neutron
A particle in the nucleus of an atom of pull or push a force produes
Electron
A particle in the space outside the nucleus of an atom that carries one unit of negative electric charge
Nucleus
- A dense structure inside the cell
- One of the airborne dust particles around which water condenses as droplets or ice crystals before falling as precipitation
- An atom’s dense center , where most of its mass is
Moleclue
A particle that contains more than one atom joined together