Matter - Anything that occupies space and has mass.

Mass - Measurement of the amount of material in an object, SI unit is kilograms

Solubility - The amount os substance that dissolves in a given quanity of solvent

Physical State - The state of a sample of matter, either gas, liquid, or solid

Density - The ratio of an objects mass to its volume, Density=(Mass)/(Volume)

Specific Gravity - The ratio of an object's density to the density of water

Specific Heat - Heat required to raise one gram of a substance one degree Celsius

Accuracy - How close a measurement is to the actual value

Precision - Closeness of agreement among several measurements of the same quanity

Temperature - A measure of how hot or cold a substance is relative to another substance.

Volume - The space occupied by an object.

Luster - The trait of reflecting or not reflecting light. Shininess.

Conductivity - ability of heat and/or electric current to travel through a substance

Average - One number that can be used to represent a set of numbers relating to the same thing, found by dividing the sum of the numbers by the quanity of numbers in the set

Meniscus - Parabola shape formed by water in a glass measuring device. Most devices are calibrated to read the vertex.

Least Significant Digit - The decimal place in a measurement where there is uncertainty

Significant Figures - Actual measured digits in a number

Scientific Notation - Representation of a very small or ver large number by using a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10, for example, 6,234,000 would equal, 6.234x106

Decimal Places - Any digits to the right of the decimal point

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