Physical versus Chemical Properties

The study of matter

Adapted by NCDPI – Unit 2 Matter All Around us

• Matter: anything that has mass and takes up space– Mass – the amount of matter in something– Volume – the amount of space something

occupies

• Which of the following is matter?– A car?– A box?– You?

Reviewing MATTER

What is a property?

• Property: a characteristic of a substance that can be observed

Physical Property

Physical property: a property that can be observed without changing the identity of the substance.

Examples:

• luster

• malleability: the ability to be hammered into a thin sheet

• ductility: the ability to be stretched into a wire

• melting point

• boiling point

• density

• solubility

• specific heat

Special Physical Properties

• Melting point: the temperature at which a substance changes from a solid to a liquid at a given pressure

water = 0oC or 32ºF

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Special Physical Properties

• Boiling point: the temperature at which a substance changes from a liquid to a gas at a given pressure

water = 100oC or 212ºF

Chemical Properties• Chemical property: a property that

can only be observed by changing the identity of the substance

Examples:

Flammability

ability to rust

reactivity with vinegar

Density• Density is the amount of mass per

unit of volume. (how much matter is packed together)

• Density can be used to identify a substance.

• The density of water is 1.0g/mL

Density• Examples

• Helium filled balloons are less dense than density of air

• Hydrometer is used to test

• the density of Antifreeze.

Density – more examples• How can you float 7 different liquids in layers?

Density Calculations

• Calculations:D = m/V = g/mL = g/cm3

• Ex: A cube has a mass of 2.8 g and occupies a volume of 3.67 ml. Would this object float or sink in water?

Mass = 2.8 g Volume = 3.67 mLD = 2.8g/3.67 mL= 0.76 g/mL

– This object would float in water because its density is less than water (1.0 g/mL).

More Density Calculations

• Ex: A liquid has a mass of 25.6 g and a volume of 31.6 mL. Use the table below to identify the substance.

Substance Density (g/ mL)

Mercury 13.6

Water 1.00

Ethanol 0.81

M=25.6 g V=31.6 mL

D = 25.6 g/31.6 mL

D= 0.81 g/mL

The substance is ethanol.

Specific Heat• Specific Heat is the amount of energy

needed to raise one gram of a substance by one degree Celsius

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Solubility• Solubility is the ability of a substance to

dissolve (become trapped in) another substance. Solubility is based on polarity (the distribution of charge in a compound).

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Solubility

• A solution is formed when one substance dissolves in another substance.

• The substance that “dissolved” is called the solute.

• The substance that is “doing the dissolving” is called the solvent.

• Water is the universal solvent.

Polarity• Polarity is an uneven distribution of charges in

a molecule. Ex. Water molecule

• Polar compounds will dissolve other polar compounds as well as ionic compounds. Non-polar compounds will dissolve other nonpolar compounds.

• Water is polar and

• Oil is nonpolar.

• Their molecules do

• not attract each other.