Physical Properties

Physical Properties: Properties can be observed without changing the substance Properties observed using your five senses

Physical Properties include: Color Luster Mass Magnetism Size Smell Shape Taste Volume Density Boiling point Conduction Melting point Malleability State of matter Ductility Hardness

Luster Shininess The way light is reflected off the surface

Density The ratio of the mass of a substance to the volume of the substance M/V

Conduction Heat transfer through a substance or from one substance to another by direct contact of molecules

Malleability Ability to be hammered out into a thin sheet

Ductility Ability to be stretched into a thin wire

Chemical Properties

Chemical Properties: Properties that can not be observed without changing the substance into a new substance. You don’t know that a substance has that property until the chemical change is observed. Matter that has the ability to change into new matter that has different properties.

Chemical Properties include: Flammability Toxicity pH – acid or base Reactivity to water Reactivity to oxygen Reactivity to an acid Explosivity Corrosiveness

Flammability Ability to burn

Toxicity Ability to poison

pH Acid or base

Reactivity to Water

Reactivity to Oxygen

Reactivity to an Acid

Corrosiveness Gradual wearing away of metal due to a chemical reaction in which a metal element is changed into a metallic compound

Explosivity The property of being explosive which is to burst or shatter violently and noisily as a result of rapid combustion, excessive internal pressure, or other process.