REMINDERS:

1. Sit properly. (Seat Plan will be implemented next week)

2. Keep your CELLPHONE inside your bag. Cellphones and
Electronic Devices are prohibited during class hours.
3. Open your Chromebook. Log in to your CANVAS.
4. Click the module on “Properties of Matter”.
5. LISTEN to the discussion of the topic. The discussion includes
questions to be answered by the students.
1 question = each answer = 1 stamp on your notebook = 1 point
(credit to your formative assessment)
6. After the discussion, proceed answering the worksheet (to be
submitted before the bell rings). Kindly lower your voice when doing
your assigned tasks/activities.
Properties of Matter
How we can tell “stuff” apart
 What are Properties?
• Properties are qualities of matter
• Physical properties – what can I observe with my 5 senses?
• Chemical properties – what does it react with?

• Can be quantitative or qualitative

• Quantitative (Extensive) – Can be assigned a number or value, objective measurement
• Qualitative (Intensive) – Can not be assigned a numerical value, subjective description

• Can help us identify what a substance is made of

• Some properties are specific to given substances
Is it Physical or Chemical?
Physical Properties
Extensive and Intensive
Both of these people are participating in a board sport, but the man on the
left is snowboarding in Norway while the woman on the right is
sandboarding in Dubai. Snow and sand are both kinds of matter, but they
have different properties. What are some ways snow and sand differ?
 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
• Physical properties of matter are properties that can be measured or
observed without matter changing to an entirely different substance.
Physical properties are typically things you can detect with your senses.
For example, they may be things that you can see, hear, smell, or feel.

• Physical changes are changes in which no chemical bonds are broken or

formed. This means that the same types of compounds or elements that
were there at the beginning of the change are there at the end of the
change. Because the ending materials are the same as the beginning
materials,
Q: What differences
between snow and
sand can you detect
with your senses?

Q: What differences
between Chlorinated
water and Bottled
water can you detect
with your senses?
 BOILING AND MELTING POINT
• Temperature is the measure of the
average kinetic energy of the particles in
matter; a physical property of matter.
• The melting point of a substance is the
temperature at which its solid and liquid
phases are in balance.
• The process which involves the conversion
of liquid state to the gaseous state from
the bulk of the liquid by heating is called
boiling
Q: What happens first melting or boiling?
 Malleability
• Malleability means how much a
substance can be hammered flat or
bent

• Example: Gold, aluminum foil

• Qualitative
 Brittleness
• Brittleness is whether a substance
will break with little strain

• Example: Glass breaking

• Qualitative
 Ductility
• Ductility is the ability of a substance
to be drawn into a wire. This means
that it can be rolled and stretched
into long thin shapes.

• Example: Copper can be made into

wires easily
• Qualitative

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 Viscosity
• Viscosity is the thickness of a liquid,
or how slowly it pours
• Low viscosity: Water
• High viscosity: Honey
• Qualitative

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 COnductivity
• Conductivity is how well a substance
transfers heat and/or electricity

• Good conductor: Copper, gold, silver

• Bad conductor (good insulator):

Ceramic, rubber

• Qualitative

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 Luster
• Luster is how shiny an object is
• Example: Fool’s Gold (pyrite) has high
luster
• Qualitative

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 State or Phase
• The state or phase of the matter is
whether a substance is a solid,
liquid, or gas

• Example: Water is a liquid at room

temperature
• Qualitative

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 Density
• Density is the amount of mass in a
given volume of a substance
• Example: 500g of feathers and 500g of
bricks have the same mass, but the
feathers will take up more space
• Density is characteristic of the
substance
• Can be calculated using d=m/v
• Quantitative
Chemical Properties
How does it react?
Look at the two garden trowels
pictured here. Both trowels were left
outside for several weeks. One
tool became rusty, but the other did
not. The tool that rusted is made of
iron, and the other tool is made of
aluminum.

Q: What does it mean?

 Chemical properties
• Chemical properties are properties that can be measured or observed only
when matter undergoes a change to become an entirely different kind of
matter.
• For example, the ability of iron to rust can only be observed when iron
actually rusts. When it does, it combines with oxygen to become a different
substance called iron oxide. Iron is very hard and silver in color, whereas
iron oxide is flakey and reddish brown. Besides the ability to rust, other
chemical properties include reactivity and flammability.
 Reaction with Acid (reactivity)
• Does it react when exposed to acid?
• Baking soda reacts with acetic acid (vinegar)
to produce carbon dioxide gas
• Metals will react with acid to produce
hydrogen gas
• Sugar reacts with sulfuric acid to create a
black pillar

Reactivity is the ability of matter to combine

chemically with other substances. Some kinds
of matter are extremely reactive; others are
extremely unreactive.
 Flammability
• Flammability is how easily a
substance burns. When matter
burns, it combines with oxygen and
changes to different substances.

• Example: Gasoline burns very easily,

and is therefore quite flammable.

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 Corrosivity
• Corrosivity is the ability of a
substance to degrade another object

• Example: Salt water causing iron to

rust
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