chemical property
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- noun
- /ˈkɛmɪkəl ˈprɒpərti/
- Specialized
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propiedad química
- The study focused on the chemical properties of the new compound formed during the reaction.
- physical and chemical properties
- chemical properties of the soil
And he wrote down all its chemical properties, its density, how it acts with various things.
- And he wrote down all its chemical properties, its density, how it acts with various things.
- And all of this can lead to a wide variety of chemical properties.
Examples
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Researchers examined the chemical properties of various substances to understand their reactivity.
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The food analysis laboratory was designed to facilitate the study of the composition and chemical properties of food.
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In fact, these species have quite distinct physical and chemical properties.
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The chemical properties of the soil are shown in Table 1.
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The chemical properties of plastics make them particularly dangerous to the marine environment.
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Chapter 2 describes the physical and chemical properties of the dioxin-like compounds.
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Our research shows that small differences in climate and soil physical and chemical properties may have large effects on soil nematode abundance and biodiversity.
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Peat has a high water-holding capacity, large surface area, and chemical properties that make it very effective in treating wastewater.
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Published research to date on fly ash-based geopolymer has primarily focused on the effect of the physical and chemical properties of precursor fly ash on compressive strength evolution.
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Sunscreens are topical preparations with physical and chemical properties that attenuate the transmission of solar UVR into the skin by absorption, reflection, or scattering.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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How easily a substance changes when it meets other chemicals
A tendency of a chemical to change or break down quickly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a characteristic related to chemistry' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'chemical' (relating to chemistry) with 'property' (a feature or attribute). This adjective+noun composition is a standard, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Chemical property comes from the idea of features you only see when a substance changes in a chemical reaction. Imagine wood burning and turning to ash: the ability to burn is a chemical property because it shows how the material 'changes', so chemical property means a way a substance changes during a reaction.