Emilee Science Vocabulary

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matter anything that has mass and takes up space element a material that cannot be broken down into any simpler substance atom the smallest unit of an element that still retains the properties of the properties of that element compound a substance that forms by the chemical combination of two or more elements molecule a particle that contains more than one atom joined together by sharing electrons physical property a property can be observed without changing the identity of the object mass the amount of matter in an object weight a measure of how gravity pulls on an object volume a measure of how much space an object an object takes up density the amount of matter iin a certain volume of a substance; calcutated by dividing the mass of an object by its volume chemical property a property that involves how a substance interacts with other substances boiling point the temperature a t which a substance boils freezing point the temperature at which a substance freezes