Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Quiz #2 Vocabulary/Questions

Vocabulary Terms:

Matter: Anything that occupies pace and has mass. 
Examples: Solids, liquids, gases, mixtures, and substances

Physical Properties: Properties that can be observed and measured without changing the chemical makeup of the substance.
Examples: Freezing Point, Melting Point, Density, and Boiling Point.

Density: The mass of material within a given volume.

Freezing Point: Another physical property.

Aqueous Solution: A water-based solution that is based on the Latin root for water.

Mixture: The result of two or more substances combine and yet the substance retain their individual properties; a type of matter where two or more physically separable components in ratios varying from sample to sample.
Examples: Heterogeneous Mixture, Homogeneous Mixture.

Heterogeneous Mixture: Not the same, or uniform; varying properties from sample to sample.
Examples: Colloids and Suspensions

Homogeneous Mixture: Uniform properties throughout. 
Examples: Solutions and Substances

Substances: Homogenous; definite composition and not physically separable. 

Elements: One type of atom; type of substance.

Compounds: Two or more types of atoms chemically bonded; type of substance.

Tyndall Effect: The scattering of light.

Colloids: Often suspended microscopic particles; exhibit Tyndall effect.

Solutions: Homogenous mixtures that are often molecular sized particles which usually pass light.

Solute: The dissolved substance

Solvent: The dissolving agent. 

Questions:

Why can't foul water lab make seawater drinkable?
- It would take too long and the the lab was to make foul water capable for hand washing and not drinking.

What process can?

Distillation: purifying a liquid by vaporizing it.

OR

Desalination: the removal of salt from seawater. 

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