All About Matter!!

Do you guys know what matter is??

(you say: NO, what is it??)

Matter is anything that has mass and volume a.k.a everything around us

MATTER can be broken down into 2 categories:



Calcium

PURE SUBSTANCE:  only one set and kind of properties

MIXTURES: more than one set of property and substance

                       physically combined

These categories can be broken down further.

PURE SUBSTANCES can be broken down to 2 more categories

ELEMENTS: simplest form (cannot be decomposed) and made up of atoms

                         ie. metals, metalloids, non-metal

COMPOUNDS: made up of elements

                              chemically combined

                             smallest particle (molecule)

     

                         ie. ionic, covalent

MIXTURES can be broken down to 2 more categories.

HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURES:

uniform throughout

appears to have only one component

ie. solution

HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES:

not uniform

appears to have more than one component

ie. water and oil, salad dressing

can be broken down further to : SUSPENSION, MECHANICAL MIXTURE

In conclusion,

I hope that you guys unders
tand what matter is and how it is related to chemistry

Written by JK