Physical
Properties: |
State: Solid, Liquid or Gas |
Colour: What Colour if any? |
Smell: What does it smell like |
Solubility in water. |
Solid: Is it crystalline or amorphous | |
Liquid: If it flows quickly we say it has low viscosity, if like honey or treacle it flows slowly we say it has a high viscosity or it is a viscous liquid. |
An example of a chemical property of iron is that it rusts. | |
A substance that “catches fire” is flammable. | |
A substance that helps other substances to burn supports combustion, but doesn’t burn itself. | |
Acids
turn litmus red | |
Bases
turn litmus blue |
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The German chemist Bunsen invented the Bunsen burner and
improved many pieces of laboratory equipment.