Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Describing Matter
- Properties used to described matter can be
classified as extensive or intensive
- Extensive Properties
- Depends on the amount of matter
- Intensive Properties
- Depends on the type of matter
- Identifying Substances
- Every sample of a given substance has identical intensive properties because every sample
has the same composition.
- Physical Property
- A quality or condition of a substance that can be observed or measured without
changing the substances composition
- States of Matter
- Solid
- *Definite shape
*Definite volume
*Not easily
compressed
- Liquid
- *Indefinite shape
*Definite volume
*Not easily
compressed
- Gas
- *Indefinite shape
*Indefinite volume
*Easily compressed