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Five major branches of chemistry, mixture, product, reactant, phase, hetero/homogeneous mix/ vapor,mass,compound,element,chemical reaction, distillation,solid,gas,liquid
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Chemistry
11th Grade
09/19/2013

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Organic Chemistry
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Study of all chemicals containing carbon
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Inorganic Chemistry
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Study of chemicals, generally, without carbon
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Biochemistry
Definition
Study of processes that take place in organisms
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Analytic Chemistry
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Study that focuses on the composition of matter
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Physical Chemistry
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Area that deals with the mechanism, the rate & energy transfer that occurs when matter undergoes a change.
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5 branches of chemistry. List & Define.
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Physical Chemistry:Area that deals with the mechanism, the rate & energy transfer that occurs when matter undergoes a change.

Analytic Chemistry :Study that focuses on the composition of matter

Biochemistry:Study of processes that take place in organisms

Inorganic Chemistry:Study of chemicals, generally, without carbon

Organic Chemistry:Study of all chemicals containing carbon
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Mixture
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A mixture contains two or more substances that are not chemically combined.
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Product
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The compounds that are formed when a reaction goes to completion.
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Reactant
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Substances initially present in a chemical reaction that are consumed during the reaction to make products.
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Phase
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The states in which matter can exist
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Heterogeneous mixture
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Different throughout
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Homogeneous Mixture
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Same throughout
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Vapor
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A gas formed by boiling or evaporating a liquid
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Mass
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A measure of the amount of matter in an object
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Compound
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is a substance formed when two or more chemical elements are chemically bonded together
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Element
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cannot be separated into simpler substances
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Chemical Reaction
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process in which one or more substances are changed into others
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Distillation
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The separation of a liquid mixture into its components on the basis of differences in boiling points.
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Lavoisier
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Considered the father of modern chemistry because he helped transformed chemistry from a science of observation to a science of measurement it is today by inventing the first ever scale (balance). He also determined how materials actually burned (combining with oxygen)
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Liquid
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indefinite shape, definite volume
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Solid
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definite shape, definite volume
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Gas
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indefinite shape, indefinite volume
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