Matter - Properties and Changes Chapter 3
Jan 03, 2016
Matter - Properties and Changes
Chapter 3
Substances
•Substance = Matter that has a uniform and unchanging composition
•Examples are salt and water
•Is seawater a substance?
Properties of Matter
• Physical property: characteristic that can be observed or measured without changing the sample’s composition
• Substances have unchanging physical properties
• Density, color, odor, taste, hardness, melting point, boiling point, etc...
• Can be extensive (dependent on the amount; mass, volume, length) or intensive (independent of the amount; density)
Chemical Properties
•Chemical Property: The ability of a substance to combine with or change into one or more other substances
Conditions that Observations are
Made•Properties can be dependent on
the immediate conditions
•Always record the conditions
•Pressure, temperature
•Think of water!
States of Matter
•Solid: Form of matter that has its own definite shape and volume
•Particles tightly packed, shape is definite, incompressible
States of Matter•Liquid: Form of matter that flows,
has constant volume, and takes the shape of its container
•Particles not rigid, particles can move past each other, virtually incompressible
States of Matter• Gas: Form of matter that flows to conform to
the shape of its container and fills the entire volume of its container
• Particles are far apart, easily compressible
• Vapor = gaseous state of a substance that is normally solid or liquid at room temperature
• Oxygen vs. water vapor?
Changes in Matter (3.2)
• Physical changes: altering of a substance without changing its composition
• Ice - water - water vapor
• Phase changes are physical changes
• boil, freeze, condense, vaporize, melt
• Temperatures at which substances do these are physical properties (intensive)
Teacherweb.com
Chemical Changes• Chemical Changes: The process that
involves one or more substances changing into new substances
• Chemical Reaction
• New substances have different compositions and different properties
• Explode, rust, oxidize, corrode, tarnish, ferment, burn, rot
• Starting substances = reactants
• Newly formed substances = products
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Conservation of Mass
•Law of Conservation of Mass: Mass is neither created nor destroyed during a chemical reaction - it is conserved
•Mass Reactants = Mass Products
•Practice Problems p. 65 6, 7
Mixtures of Matter (3.3)
•On the basis of composition alone, all matter can be classified into substances or mixtures
•Mixture = a combination of two or more pure substances in which each pure substance retains its individual chemical properties.
•Composition of mixtures is variable
•Demo
Types of Mixtures• Heterogeneous: one that does not blend
smoothly throughout and in which the individual substances remain distinct
• Sand and water, orange juice with pulp
• Homogeneous: one that has a constant composition throughout, it always has a single phase
• Salt and water, powder drink in water
• Called solutions
Separating Mixtures
•Substances in mixtures are physically combined so they can be physically separated
•penny and nickel mixture
•salt and water
•sand and water
Filtration
•Heterogeneous mixtures of solids and liquids are easily separated by filtration
•Uses a porous barrier to let the liquid through and traps the solids
Distillation•Based on
differences in boiling points of the substances in a mixture
•Lowest boiling point turns to a vapor first and can then be cooled and captured
Homechemistry.org
Crystallization
•Separation technique that results in the formation of pure solid particles of a substance from a solution containing the dissolved substance
•Produces highly pure solids
•Rock Candy!
crystal-clear-science-projects.com
Chromatography
•Separates components of a mixture on the basis of the tendency of each to travel or be drawn across the surface of another material
•Separate the colors of ink in a pen mason.gmu.edu
Heterogeneous Mixtures
• Suspensions: mixture containing particles that will settle out in left undisturbed
• Separate through a filter
• Suspended particles are large compared to other mixtures
• Colloids: mixture containing particles of intermediate size
• Cannot separate via filtration
• Particles big enough to scatter light (Tyndall Effect)