MILADY Standard Chapter 10 Chemistry Nail Technology

The sugar in grapes chemically converts into _____ ______ in wine when it is fermented.

There are about 65 naturally occurring elements.

A pH of 8.9 is considered _________.

What are the three physical forms of matter?

Any substance that occupies space and has mass (weight) is ______.

What is Chemistry?

A sweet, colorless, oily substance.

A liquid that has evaporated into a “gas-like” state, but is not gas.

Lipophilic means oil-loving. It is the tail of the surfactant molecule.

Miscible liquids can be mixed, while Immiscible liquids are not capable of being mixed into stable solutions.

Organic simply means it contains _________.

The head of the surfactant is hydrophilic, meaning oil loving.

In an oil-in-water (O?W) emulsion, oil droplets are emulsified in ______?

lipophilic means oil loving

What causes an atom or molecule to split in two, creating a pair of ions with opposite electrical charges?

An ______ is an unstable physical mixture of 2 or more substances that normally will not stay blended w/o an emulsifier.

As a nail professional, you need to have a basic understanding of chemistry to help use products safely.

C is the element letter symbol for ________?

what are the 4 states of matter?

A special type of ingredient used in nail polish dryers and as skin protectants is _________.

surfactants allow water and oil to mix

Alkali is another name for base.

__________ are unstable mixtures of undissolved particles floating in a liquid.

Unstable mixtures of undissolved particles floating in a liquid

Inorganic substances do not contain carbon and most do not burn.

A _____ ____ is a change in the physical properties of a substance w/o a chemical reaction or creation of new substance.