Your Senses
For the Love of Metals
For the Love of Liquids
Odds and Ends
100

This property of matter can be sensed by your olfactory receptors.

What is odor?

100

Copper, gold and silver can be drawn into a wire is this property.

What is ductility?

100

This property is the ability of a substance to dissolve into another substance.

What is solubility?

100

The property that justifies why you use dry kindling or paper to start a fire.

What is flammability?

200

Sour, sweet, salty, bitter and savory are the descriptors of this property.

What is taste?

200

Aluminum being hammered into foil is this property.

What is malleability?

200

This property is how easily a substance can be poured.

What is viscosity?

200

Diamonds are special because they are the only substance on earth that has this rating of this property.

What is hardness?

300

Your eyes will sense this property depending on what wavelength of light the substance reflects.

What is color?

300

The property of metals being attracted to other metals is this property.

What is magnetism?

300

Water, maple syrup and bricks can be differentiated by this property- but only if there is light!

What is opacity?

300

The amount of space between particles is how this property is defined.

What is state of matter?

400

This property is how a surface feels....pet the cat! :)

What is texture?
400

Gold going from a solid state to a liquid state at 1063°C is this property.

What is melting point?

400

The fact that sodium will combust when exposed to this substance is this property.

What is reacts with water?

400

When substances take on a geometrical shape structurally, it has this property.

What is crystal form?

500

The amount of light that reflects off a surface is this property.

What is luster?

500

Copper is used for household wiring even though gold would do a better job- it is just not as cost effective- is this property of matter.

What is electrical conductivity?

500

The fact that oil floats on top of water is this property?

What is density?

500

The ability of a substance to add or remove hydrogen ions is this property.

What is pH?