MATTER: Its State Flashcards
- Any substance that has mass and takes up space
- Matter includes atoms and anything made up of atoms but no other energy phenomena or waves such as light sound
Matter
Scale is the length scale on which objects or phenomena are large enough to be visible almost practically with the naked eye, without magnifying optical instruments.
macroscopic
how many naturally occuring elements?
98 elements
A substance is composed of only one type of atoms called
elements
groups of two or more atoms
that have been bonded together
molecules
low temperature (below 0)
solid
normal temperature (0-100 C)
liquid
high temperature (100 C)
Gas
Calculations on gases, such as gas density.
Standard Temperature and Pressure (STP)
- A plasma globe operating in a darkened room
- It does not naturally occur on earth
- Ionized Atoms (Super-heated atoms)
Plasma
- A group of atoms cooled to within a hair of absolute zero
- When they reach that temperature the atoms are hardly moving relative to each other; they have almost no free energy to do so.
Bose-Einstein Condensate
Properties are constant throughout the sample (there is only one set of properties – physical and chemical properties)
Pure Substances
Substances that cannot be broken down to simpler components.
Elements
- Substance that can be broken down
to chemically simpler components - Two or more elements
compound
Two or pure substances that retain their identities and can be separated by physical method
mixture