Chemical properties

Chemical Properties

Chemical properties (/kɛmɪkəl/ /prɒpərti:/) are characteristics of a substance that become evident during, or after, a chemical reaction; that is, any quality that can be established only by changing a substance's chemical identity.

Etymology

The term "chemical properties" is derived from the field of chemistry, which studies the properties and behaviors of matter. "Chemical" comes from the Greek word khēmia, meaning "the art of transmuting metals," and "properties" comes from the Latin proprietat- which means "a quality or attribute."

Related Terms

• Chemical Reaction: A process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.
• Chemical Identity: The chemical identity of a substance involves the combination of its chemical name, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) number, and any other information that reveals its precise chemical designation.
• Chemistry: The branch of science that deals with the identification of the substances of which matter is composed; the investigation of their properties and the ways in which they interact, combine, and change; and the use of these processes to form new substances.
• Matter: Anything that has mass and takes up space by having volume.

See Also

• Physical properties
• Chemical change
• Chemical bond

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