Physical Properties of Matter

Cornell Notes page 119

How do you identify your friends and family?

• Eye color

• Hair color

• Skin color

• Fingerprints

• DNA

These are all characteristics that you have that will stay with you for life and can be used to identify you.

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Characteristic Properties of Matter

2 Types: physical and chemical

• Can be used to identify a substance

• Unique for each kind of matter

• Stay the same- do not change even though shape or amount of matter may change

Physical Properties of Matter

• can be seen or measured without changing the identity of the substance

• Solubility- ability of substance to dissolve in certain substances

• Density- how close together are the particles? (amount of mass per unit volume).

1 standard size brick weighs about 4.5 lbs.

It would take almost two pillows to equal the mass of one brick!

1 standard size feather pillow weighs between 1-3 pounds.

Physical Properties of Matter

• Melting Point and Boiling Point- at what temp. does the substance change phases?

• State of matter