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Properties of Matter

Physical & Chemical Changes


Physical Properties
• Physical properties can be observed or measured.
• Observing or measuring physical properties does NOT
CHANGE THE IDENTITY OF THE MATTER (you still have
the same material!) They are easy to observe and
measure.
• Examples are:
– Mass
– Volume
– Density
– Color
– Shape
– Melting point
– Boiling point
– Freezing Point
– Hardness
– Thermal conductivity
– Physical State – solid, liquid, or gas
– solubility
Physical Properties Help Describe
Substances!
• A physical property can be used to describe a
substance
Can you guess this matter by knowing its properties?
• Example: What is…
– Round
– Orange
– Smells rubbery
– Bounces
– A Basketball!!
Chemical Properties
• Chemical Properties describe a substance based
on its ability to change into a new substance
with different properties.
• They are not as easy to observe as physical
properties
• Must attempt to change the matter to observe
chemical properties(test it!)
• Examples:
– Flammability
– Reactivity
Physical vs. Chemical
Properties
• Physical properties are
readily observable
• Chemical properties can
only be observed as the
object is changing
• Example – you do not
know if an object is
flammable until you set it
on fire!
Physical vs. Chemical
Properties
Physical Properties Chemical Properties
Baking Soda
White Powder Reacts with
vinegar
Rubbing Alcohol
Clear liquid Flammable

Red Food Coloring


Red Color Reacts with
bleach to lose
its Color
Iron
Malleable Reacts with
Oxygen
Characteristic Properties
• Characteristic Properties allow scientists
to identify substances.
• Characteristic Properties are always the
same whether the sample observed is
large or small.
• Examples:
• Density
• Solubility
• Melting point, freezing pt., boiling pt.
Characteristic Properties
Examples:
•Density-

•Solubility- Salt is soluble(will dissolve) in


water whether you are using a pinch of salt
or a cup of salt
•Melting point, freezing pt., boiling pt.
•Ice melts at 32°F /0° C
•Copper melts at 1981°F /1083° C
•Mercury boils at 674.1°F (356.7°C)
Matter
Matter can be described in 2 ways:
•By using physical properties and chemical
properties
Matter can change in 2 ways:
•Physical Changes

•Chemical Changes
Changes of Matter
• Physical Change
– A change that affects one or more physical
properties, but does NOT change the identity of
the substance. Nothing new has formed.
Examples:
– Breaking, bending cutting, cracking, or painting
– Changing states – melting, freezing, evaporating
– Dissolving
When you break something, what physical property
changes? Bending? Cutting? Painting?
- When salt dissolves in water, is the mixture still
salt and water, or has it changed into a new
substance?
Can physical changes be reversed or “undone”?
Changes in Matter
• Chemical Change
– A change that occurs when one or more
substances are changed into entirely new
substances with different properties
Examples:
Baking, cooking, rusting, tarnishing, souring,
growing mold, decomposing
– Bake a cake – the cake is entirely different from
the batter – new properties!
– A car rusting -burning toast
– Wood burning
– Silver tarnishing
– Milk turning sour
Can chemical changes be undone? Not
reversible (except by another chemical reaction)
Clues or Hints that a Chemical
Change has Taken Place
• Color Change (unexpected)
• Bubbling, Fizzing, or foaming
• Production of light or sound
• Change in temperature(gets hot or cold)
• Production of an odor
• A Precipitate is formed (2 liquids mix to
form a solid)
Physical or Chemical
Change?
Cutting Your Hair
Physical

Rusting
Chemical

Boiling Water
Physical

Dissolving Salt in Water


Physical

Burning Wood Chemical

Frying an Egg
Chemical

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