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Properties used to describe matter can be classified as extensive or
intensive
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anything that has mass and takes up space including smoke, air, and water vapor
Matter
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Mass and _____ are examples of extensive properties
volume
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an example of an intensive property
hardness
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every sample of a given substance has identical intensive properties because every sample has the same composition
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Hardness, color, conductivity, and malleability are examples of physical properties
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The three states of mass, solid, liquid, and gas are distinguished by certain characteristics including compressibility , shape and volume
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The words vapor and gas are sometimes used interchangeably. But there is a difference
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Solids have a definite shape, definite volume, experience small expansion when heated and are virtually incompressible
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liquids have a indefinite shape, definite volume, experience moderate expansion when heated and are virtually incompressible
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gases have a indefinite shape, indefinite volume, experience large expansion when heated and are compressible
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