Chapter 1 - Chemical World Flashcards
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Chemistry
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the science that tries to understand how matter behaves by studying how atoms and molecules behave
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Scientific Method
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way of learning that emphasizes obeservation + experimentation
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Observation
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measurement of some aspect of nature
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Hypothesis
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tentative interpretation or explanation of the observations
-a good hypothesis is falsifiable
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Falsifiable
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further testing has the potential to prove a hypothesis wrong
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Experiments
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highly controlled observations designed to validate or invalidate hypotheses
-if the hypothesis shows mistakes, it is modified, experimented again until a good hypothesis is found
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Scientific Law
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- brief statement that summarizes past observations and predicts future one
- a number of observations lead to the dvlpt. of a scientific law
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Theory
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- one or more well-established hypotheses may form the basis for a scientific theory
- provide broader + deeper explanations for observations
