Chemical Properties

What is a chemical property?

A chemical property describes a substance's ability to react and change into a new substance with different properties

What happens to a substance during a chemical change?

It forms a new substance with different physical and chemical properties

What is combustibility?

Combustibility is the ease or difficulty with which a substance burns

Give an example of a substance with high combustibility

Gasoline— it burns easily

What is reactivity with acids?

It is the ease or difficulty with which a substance reacts with acid.

Give an example of a reaction with an acid

Baking soda reacts quickly with vinegar (an acid).

What is reactivity with water?

The ease or difficulty with which a substance reacts with water.

Give an example of a substance that reacts with water

Sodium and potassium (alkali metals) react violently with water.