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Chemical Equilibrium✔✔In a chemical reaction, the state in which the rate of the forward
reaction equals the rate of the reverse reaction, so that the relative
concentrations of the reactants and products do not change with time
Chemical Reaction
✔✔The making and breaking of chemical bonds, leading to changes in the
composition of matter
Reactant
✔✔A starting material in a chemical reaction
Product
✔✔A material resulting from a chemical reaction
Four Properties of Water that Facilitate an Environment for Life
✔✔Cohesion, expansion upon freezing, moderate temperature, versatility
as a solvent
Adhesion
✔✔The clinging of one substance to another, such as water to plant cell
walls, by means of hydrogen bonds
Surface Tension
✔✔A measure of how difficult it is to stretch or break the surface of a
liquid
, Specific Heat
✔✔The amount of heat that must be absorbed or lost for 1 g of a
substance to change its temperature by 1°C
Heat of Vaporization
✔✔The quantity of heat a liquid must absorb for 1 g of it to be converted
from a liquid to the gaseous state
Evaporative Cooling
✔✔The process in which the surface of an object becomes cooler during
evaporation, a result of the molecules with the greatest kinetic energy
changing from the liquid to the gaseous state
Solvent
✔✔The dissolving agent of a solution; water is the most versatile
dissolving agent
Solution
✔✔A liquid that is a homogenous mixture of two or more substances
Solute
✔✔A substance that is dissolved in a solution
Hydrophilic
✔✔Having an affinity for water
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