Name: Santos, Yannah Gillian H.

Grade:9-wisdom
Subject: Science Date:

Activity: Which is which?

1. Search for the chemical formula, characteristics, and uses of the following substances:

A. Methane

 Chemical Formula: CH4

 Characteristics:
Odorless
Lighter than air
Colorless
Least or slightly soluble in water
Life span in the surroundings or atmosphere is much shorter.
 Uses:
o Methane is used as a fuel for vehicles, ovens, and heaters.
o Use to produce electricity
o Use as an ingredient for fertilizer
o Methane can also be used as an antifreeze ingredient.
o Can be used as a sanitizing product.
B. Salt

 Chemical Formula: NaCl

 Characteristics
Colorless, white, or transparent
Does not contain a smell but has a taste.
Soluble in water
The shape is like a small bit of crystals
Hard in texture
 Uses:
o Salt is known and used as a food seasoning.
o Salt is used for maintaining the balance of fluids in a person’s body.
o Use to make products like plastic, paper,rubber, glass, chlorine, and
household bleach.
o It is use for removing ice
o Can be use for cleaning.

C. Benzene
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 Chemical formula: C6H6

 Characteristics:
Does not contain color or light yellow liquid at temperature.
Has a sweet odor
Highly flammable
Evaporates into the air quickly
Slightly dissolves in water
 Uses:
o Use to produce rubber
o Use as a solvent, like nylon
o Also use for making paints, which causes them to stay in liquid form.
o Used as a fuel
o Use for cleaning printing equipment.

D. Water

 Chemical formula: H2O

 Characteristics:
Clear and transparent
Tasteless
Odourless
Water has a high specific heat capacity
Less dense as a solid (ice) than a liquid
 Uses:
o Water is used for drinking.
o Use for cleaning
o For us to bathe
o Water maintains the temperature of our body.
o Also used when cooking.

E. Ammonia

 Chemical formula: NH3

 Characteristics:
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Does not have color

Has a suffocating odor
Very soluble in water
Lighter than air
Has an irritating gas
 Uses:
o Used as a fertilizer in agriculture.
o Use to purify water supplies
o Used to manufacture plastics and explosives.
o Ammonia is used as an ingredient for cleaning products.
o Ammonia can be used for dying hair.

2. From your research,how do you think this substances can be classified?

While researching, I somehow thought that this substances can be classified as an
industrial resource. For all of this could help humans on creating and experimenting which
is helping us to improve civilization.

3. What is the basis of your classification?

The basis of my classification is the description and uses that I searched and found at
the internet.

4. Does the chemical formula help you to easily classify them? Yes or no?
Yes.

5. Which substances are considered organic?

The substance that is considered organic is Methane.