whar is substance?
Answers
- A substance is a single kind of matter that is pure- it always has a specific composition and a soecific set of properties.
- A properties of matter depend on its makeup.
- Some types of matters are substances and some are not.
- Example is salt- no matter where is comes from- seawater or salt mine - it always has the same composition and properties.
✒Question :
What is a substance?
✒Answer:
✔A chemical substance is a form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
✔ Some references add that chemical substance cannot be separated into its constituent elements by physical separation methods without breaking chemical bonds.
✔Chemical substances can be simple substances, chemical compounds, or alloys.
✔Chemical substances are often called 'pure' to set them apart from mixtures
A common example of a chemical substance is pure water .
✔ It has the same properties and the same ratio of hydrogen to oxygen whether it is isolated from a river or made in a laboratory.
✔Other chemical substances commonly encountered in pure form are diamond (carbon), gold, table salt (sodium chloride) and refined sugar (sucrose).
✔However, in practice, no substance is entirely pure, and chemical purity is specified according to the intended use of the chemical.