Unit 5 vocabulary
1) Flammability: ability to burn, supports combustion.
2) Chemical Property: characteristic of a substance that describes its tendency to combine with
other substances and form new ones.
3) Precipitate: solid produced in a chemical reaction (like milk that has gone bad).
4) Rotting: decay or breaking down of organic matter (decomposition).
5) Combustion: substances combine with oxygen and release energy (burning, explosions).
6) Rusting: reddish color coating or film on metal caused by oxidation at an atomic level.
7) State of Matter: physical property or phase of matter (solid, liquid, gas).
8) Corrosiveness: tendency of a metal to wear away by a chemical.
9) Property: characteristic or qualities of a substance.
10) Chemical reaction: process by which one or more substances change to produce one or more
different substances.
11) Chemical change: a change in a substance resulting in an entirely different substance with
different properties from the first.
12) Tarnishing: to dull the luster or to discolor.