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| Materials Scientist/Engineer |
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| study materials and make new ones |
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| type of solid matter used to make things |
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| stages a material goes through |
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| a certain characteristic of a material |
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| how you design and make an object |
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| what you use something for |
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| what do you do with a material when you are finished using it |
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| materials that come from the earth |
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| a characteristic of a substance or material such as color, density, flexibility, or hardness. |
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| describes how a material reacts with another material |
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| basic building blocks of matter that make up everyday objects |
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| How many protons an element has. The periodic table is organized according to them. |
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make up all other substances and are composed of one kind of atom
examples: Hydrogen (H), Oxygen (O), Sodium (Na), Calcium (Ca)
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| periodic table of elements |
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| pure substances organized according to their atomic mass and the type of properties they have (all elements) |
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| shorthand way to identify the kind and number of atoms that make up a compound. |
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| when elements combine chemically |
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a substance made up of two or more different elements that have combined in such a way that the elements have lost their own physical & chemical properties.
ex: water (H2O), table salt (NaCl) |
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| what you get when any atoms join together chemically |
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| bond between two or more elements |
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| how compounds are held together |
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| combination of two or more substances (elements/compounds) that are held together by bonds but can be separated into their original parts |
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| When two or more elements react together chemically and loose their original properties |
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| When an object changes phase but is still the same object |
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