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Extensive and Intensive Properties

Extensive properties are properties that depend on the amount of matter present, such as volume, mass, and energy. Intensive properties are properties that do not depend on the amount of matter, like density and specific heat capacity. The ratio of two extensive properties results in an intensive property, for example density is the ratio of mass to volume and molarity is the ratio of moles of solute to volume of solution.

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Extensive and Intensive Properties

Extensive properties are properties that depend on the amount of matter present, such as volume, mass, and energy. Intensive properties are properties that do not depend on the amount of matter, like density and specific heat capacity. The ratio of two extensive properties results in an intensive property, for example density is the ratio of mass to volume and molarity is the ratio of moles of solute to volume of solution.

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Extensive and Intensive properties

• Extensive properties
– Volume, mass, amount (mole),
– energy, enthalpy, entropy, free
– energy, heat capacity
• Intensive properties
– Molar volume, density, molar
– mass, molarity, mole fraction,
– molality, specific heat capacity
• A general statement: The ratio of two extensive
properties is an intensive property.
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Example
• Density is an intensive property
• Volume (extensive property)/Mass (extensive property) = Density (intensive property)

• Molarity is an intensive property


• Mole of the solute (extensive property) /Volume of solution (extensive property)= Molarity (intensive
property)

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