Introductory Chemistry: Concepts and Critical Thinking (8th Edition)
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Author: Charles H Corwin
Publisher: PEARSON
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The key term corresponding to the definition “a tentative proposal of a scientific principle that attempts to explain the meaning of a set of data collected in an experiment” is to be stated.
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The systematic way of building the process of knowledge by performing various experiments, by forming different explanation and prediction that can be tested of the universe is known as science.
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