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Chemical reaction |
Atoms, ions, molecules, or compounds interact either to form or break chemical bonds |
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Reactants |
The substances that enter into a chemical reaction |
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Products |
Substances that result from a chemical reaction |
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Synthesis reaction |
When two or more reactancts chemically combine to form a new and larger product |
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Dehydration reactions |
Synthesis reactions in whicj water is a product |
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Anabolism |
All the synthesis reactions that occour within the body |
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Decomposition reaction |
Reverese of a synthesis reaction, larger reactant is broken down into two or more smaller products |
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Hydrolosis reaction |
A decomposition reaction that uses water dissolution |
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Catabolism |
The decomposition reactions occouring in the body |
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Metabolism |
Anabolism and catabolism collectively refered to as |
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Reversible reactions |
Reaction can proceed from reactants to products or from produxts to reactants |
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Equilibrium |
When the rate of product formation is equal to the rate of reverese reaction |
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Oxidation reduction reactions |
Chemical reactions thay result from the exchange of electrons betweeb the reactants |
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Oxidation |
The loss of an electron by an atom |
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Reduction |
Gain of an electron |
