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What is biology the study of?
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms.
What is geology?
Geology is an earth science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change.
What is physics the study of?
Physics is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force.
What is psychology the study of?
Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior.
What is chemistry the study of?
Chemistry is the study of matter and the chemical reactions between substances. Chemistry is also the study of matter’s composition, structure, and properties. Matter is essentially anything in the world that takes up space and has mass
What is astronomy the study of?
Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies)
What is a solute?
A solute is the the substance that is dissolved.
What is a solvent?
A solvent is a substance that dissolves another.
What are the Safety rules in lab?
We’re lab coat/glasses, long hair tide back, no paper near apparatus, Bunsen burner air hole closed when lite, no running, always report accidents.
What is dilute?
make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by adding water or another solvent to it.
What is a suspension?
A suspension is a mixture in which solute-like particles settle out of a solvent.We apply the word ‘suspension’ when particles are big enough to eventually settle.
What is a saturated mixture?
The term saturated is used in chemistry to define a solution in which no more solute can be dissolved.
What is a sediment?
Sediment is any a separate and distinct matter that can be transported by fluid flow and which eventually is deposited as a layer of solid particles on the bed or bottom of a body of water or other liquid.
What is matter?
Matter is everything around you. Atoms and molecules are all composed of matter. Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is particulate?
a separate and distinct particle.
