CHEM 1E03 Final: Chemistry Comprehensive Review

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 1E03
• Professor: Peter Kruse

Document Summary

Always choosing things based on the properties of matter. Characteristic/description of a substance that may help to identify it. Does not involve a substance becoming a new substance. Solids have fixed (unchanging) shapes and have a fixed volume. Liquids always take the shape of its container and have a fixed volume. Gases always take the shape of its container and always fill the entire container. A measure of the resistance of a solid to being scratched or dented. Malleable objects can be hammered or bent into different shapes. Brittle objects shatter easily and when hammered, they shatter instead of flattening out. Can be pulled into wires conduct electricity. The temperatures at which substances change state. Crystals are solid forms of minerals, including their visible description. The ability of a substance to dissolve in a solvent such as water. How easily a liquid flows: the thicker the liquid, the more viscous. The amount of matter/unit volume of that matter.