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- A ___ solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
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- A chemical reaction in which an acid and a base interact with the formation of a salt
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- The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element (plural)
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- Any material used for its color
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- How hot or cold something is
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- Any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red (plural)
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- A coloring material that turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions
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- Bottom part something stands on; a safe spot in baseball (plural)
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- The strength of a solution
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- A number or ratio derived from a series of observed facts
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- A substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected
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- A tabular arrangement of the chemical elements according to atomic number as based on the ___
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- A substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion (plural)
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- An abstract part of something (plural)
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- A body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions (plural)
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- A mathematical statement that two expressions are equal
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