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Physical Properties of Matter
Cornell Notes page 119
How do you
• Eye color
identify your • Hair color
friends and
• Skin color
family?
• Fingerprints
• DNA
These are all characteristics that you have that
will stay with you for life and can be used to
identify you.
Characteristic • Can be used to
Properties of
identify a substance
Matter
• Unique for each kind
of matter
• Stay the same- do not
change even though
shape or amount of
matter may change
2 Types:
physical and
chemical
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 feather
pillow weighs between 1-3
pounds.
1 standard
size brick
weighs about
4.5 lbs.
It would take almost two
pillows to equal the mass
of one brick!
Physical
Properties of
Matter
• Melting Point
and Boiling
Point- at what
temp. does the
substance
change phases?
• State of matter