Chemistry of Materials Key Science Vocab Flashcards
Particular characteristics of a material such as the material’s density, melting point, or color. A change in volume of the material does not change its properties.
Property
A desirable outcome given up to gain another desirable outcome.
Trade-Off
Information that supports or refutes a claim.
Evidence
A type of solid matter used to make things.
Material
The basic building block of matter.
Atom
To mix into another substance at the scale of individual particles (atoms or molecules).
Dissolve
The simplest pure substances.
Element
The flexibility of a Material
Malleability
The stuff that makes up all living and nonliving objects.
Matter
A property that can be identified, observed, or measured and does not rely on testing if the material reacts with another substance (e.g., color). See property.
Physical Property
The ability of a substance to dissolve in another substance.
Solubility
The physical form of matter—solid, liquid, or gas.
State
Describes how a material reacts with another substance (e.g. reactivity with acid). See property
Chemical Property
A substance made from more than one element joined by a chemical bond.
Compound
Mass of a substance per unit of volume
Density
The amount of matter in an object.
Mass
The amount of space that an object or substance occupies.
Volume
Favoring one thing over another in an unfair way.
Bias
The phases in the existence of a product, including what is needed to make the product, how it will be made, and what will happen to the product when it is no longer being used.
Life Cycle
An illustration showing all stages of a life cycle.
Life Cycle Diagram
Two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.
Molecule
The ratio of the size of a real object and a model, map, diagram, or other representation of the object.
Scale
A varied number of one or more kinds of atom bonded together to form a large network.
Extended Structure
Small structures that make up all matter.
Particles
The energy an object has because of its motion.
Kinetic Energy
The total energy of motion of the particles in a sample of a substance.
Thermal Energy
A single molecular subunit.
Monomer
Compounds made of long chains of smaller repeating molecular subunits.
Polymer
A group of polymer chains that are linked together by small molecules to form a larger structure.
Cross-Linked Polymer
