Introductory Chemistry (5th Edition)

Published by Pearson
ISBN 10: 032191029X
ISBN 13: 978-0-32191-029-5

Chapter 1 - The Chemical World - Exercises - Questions For Group Work - Page 11: 25

Answer

Observation: Making note/observation of an aspect (natural or artificial); Law: Summary of a large number of observations; Hypothesis: Educated scientific guess based on observations (Note, this is not an educated guess in the traditional sense, for a person does not just say that this makes sense, so I am going to make a hypothesis. Rather, a hypothesis is heavily based on facts, and it is then examined through an experiment.); Theory: A model that can explain the underlying cause of an observation.

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Observation: Making note/observation of an aspect (natural or artificial); Law: Summary of a large number of observations; Hypothesis: Educated scientific guess based on observations (Note, this is not an educated guess in the traditional sense, for a person does not just say that this makes sense, so I am going to make a hypothesis. Rather, a hypothesis is heavily based on facts, and it is then examined through an experiment.); Theory: A model that can explain the underlying cause of an observation.
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