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SAT Subject Test: Chemistry Vocab
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SAT Subject Test: Chemistry Vocab
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1. Referring to a compound composed of two elements such as water

2. A chemical action in which both heat and light are given off

3. The process by which suspended matter is removed from a liquid by passing the liquid through a porous material

4. In metallurgy: a substance that helps to melt and remove the solid impurities as slag

5. A device used to accelerate charged particles to high energies for bombarding the nuclei of atoms

6. An instrument - invented by Toricelli in 1643 - used for measuring atmospheric pressure

7. Ethyl alcohol that has been poisoned in order to produce a cheaper alcohol for industrial purposes

8. A salt formed by replacing part of the hydrogen ions of a dibasic or tribasic acid with metallic ions - Examples: NaHSO4 - NaH2PO4

9. Residual radioactivity from an atmospheric nuclear test - eventually settles on the surface of the earth

10. Determines how a substance will behave in a chemical reaction

11. Process of heating an organic substance - such as coal - in the absence of air to break it down into solid and volatile products

12. The adhesion (in an extremely thing layer) of the molecules of gases - of dissolved substances - or of liquieds to the surfaces of solid or liquid bodies with which they come into contact

13. Process for converting atmospheric nitrogen into compounds

14. High=speed - negatively charged electrons emitted in radiations

15. A reaction in which two chemical substances exchange ions with the formation of two new compounds

16. Shows only the simplest ratio of the number and kids of atoms

17. Streams of electrons given off by the cathode of a vacuum tube

18. Rod of certain metal such as cadmium - which controls the speed of the chain reaction by absorbing neutrons in a nuclear reactor

19. To take water from a substance

20. Having no definite crystalline structure

21. Science concerned with the compositions of substances and the changes that they undergo

22. Unit for expressing the kinetic energy of subatomic particles; the energy acquired by an electron when it is accelerated by a potential difference of 1 volt

23. Absorbtion by a substance of water from the air - so that the substance becomes wet

24. Referring to any substance that has basic properties

25. Covalence in which both electrons in a pair come from the same atom