Important Terminology
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Finding the correct wording to describe the experiment can be challenging when a student has had little experience with Chemistry lab reports. Here are a few terms and phrases used frequently in writing:
- reactants - the original materials of the experiment
- product - the final material of the experiment
- mixture - the combination of two or more substances
- solution - homogenous mixture of two or more substances
- solvent - the dispersing medium of a solution
- to become homogenous - when a mixture becomes uniform in composition
- to collect " " - used to express when a substance is gathered during the experiment
- to characterize - to use the physical properties or a method of spectroscopy, etc. to accurately identify a product
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