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| 3. | one of several different homogeneous materials present in the portion of matter under study |
| 5. | other term for homogeneous mixture |
| 8. | a change in the form of matter but not in its chemical identity |
| 9. | a tested explanation of basic natural phenomena |
| 15. | a pure compound, whatever its source, always contains ___ or constant proportions of the elements by mass |
| 16. | the procedure of dropping nonsignificant digits in a calculation result and adjusting the last digit reported |
| 17. | the quantity of matter in a material |
| 19. | a unit of volume equal to a cubic decimeter (equal to approximately one quart) |
| 20. | a substance that cannot be decomposed by any chemical reaction into simpler substances. |
| 24. | a definite group of atoms that are chemically bonded together—that is, tightly connected by attractive forces |
| 26. | a material that can be separated by physical means into two or more substances |
| 27. | the SI base unit for mass; equal to about 2.2 pounds |
| 28. | the SI base unit of time |
| 29. | the closeness of the set of values obtained from identical measurements of a quantity |
| 30. | a mixture that is uniform in its properties throughout given samples. |
| 33. | law of ___ of mass - the total mass remains constant during a chemical change (chemical reaction) |
| 34. | a tentative explanation of some regularity of nature |
| 36. | a non-SI unit of length |
| 38. | a change in which one or more kinds of matter are transformed into a new kind of matter or several new kinds of matter |
| 39. | the form of matter characterized by rigidity |
| 40. | an electrically neutral gas of ions and electrons |
| 43. | a characteristic of a material involving its chemical change |
| 45. | a particular choice of metric units that was adopted by the General Conference of Weights and Measures in 1960 |
| 46. | the SI base unit of length |
| 47. | ___ figures - those digits in a measured number (or in the result of a calculation with measured numbers) that include all certain digits plus a final digit having some uncertainty |
| 49. | the SI base unit of temperature; a unit on the absolute temperature scale |
| 50. | a unit ___ by combining SI base units |