Chemical Properties | What are some examples of chemical properties?
What are some examples of chemical properties?
Chemical properties include flammability (the ability to catch on fire), toxicity (the ability to be poisonous), oxidation (the ability to react with oxygen, which causes apple slices to turn brown and iron to rust), radioactivity (spontaneously emitting energy in the form of particles or waves by the disintegration of their atomic nuclei), and sensitivity to light (which causes newspaper to turn yellow).
Being acidic or basic is another kind of chemical property. An acidSubstance that when dissolved in water is capable of reacting with a base to form salts and release hydrogen ions. is a substance that can react with, or corrode, other substances. A baseSubstance that when dissolved in water is capable of reacting with an acid to form salts...
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