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Title: Vocabulary problem
Post by: davenguyen1997 on December 03, 2015, 09:28:28 pm

Somebody please give me more informations about chemical species. Is it the general name for substance? Thanks first :)

Title: Re: Vocabulary problem
Post by: wyzard on December 05, 2015, 04:23:22 pm

Chemical species usually refers to a group of chemical that bears some form of similarity, like nitrates (any ionic compound that contains the nitrate ion) and hydrocarbon (organic compounds that contain hydrogen and carbon). It is much like a classification of chemicals based on their molecular composition, like classifying animal species as "mammals", "birds" etc.