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What is Matter?

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What is everything is made of distinct from energy.

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What is an Atom?

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The smallest particle of a chemical element that can exist.

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What is an Electron?

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An electron is a negatively charged subatomic particle.

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What is a Neutron?

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A neutron is a subatomic particle which has no electric charge

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What is a Proton?

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A proton is a subatomic particle with a positive electric charge.

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What is AMU?

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AMU stand for Atomic Mass Unit, the mass of the atom.

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What is an Electron Shell?

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An electron shell is the outside part of an atom around the atomic nucleus.

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What is an Element?

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An element is a substance whose atoms all have the same number of protons.

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What is a Compound?

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A compound is a substance formed when two or more chemical elements are chemically bonded together.

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What is the Periodic Table?

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A table of the chemical elements arranged in order of atomic number.

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What is an Atomic Number?

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The number of protons or electrons normally found in an atom of a given chemical element.

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What is Atomic Mass?

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The mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units.

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What are Atomic Particles?

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The particles of which an atom is constituted, as an electron, neutron, or proton.

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What is an Alchemist?

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A person who studies or practices the transmutation of changing common metals into gold.

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What is an Investigation?

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A examination or search in order to discover facts or gain information.

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What is an Observation?

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An act or instance of viewing or noting a fact or occurrence for some scientific purpose.

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What is a Scientist?

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A person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences.

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What is a Chemical Symbol?

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An abbreviation or short representation of a chemical element

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What is Ion?

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An Ion is an electric charged atom due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons

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What is a Cation?

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Ions with a positive charge.

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What is an Anion?

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Ions with a negative charge.

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What is Valence?

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Relating to or denoting electrons involved in or available for chemical bond formation.

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What are Noble Gases?

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Any of the gaseous elements helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon, occupying Group 8 of the periodic table.

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