Introduction:
Most chemicals in their pure form have no use for household consumers. Other manufacturers
purchase pure chemicals and make certain compositions that are useful for the consumer market. Before doing that, chemists need to test physical properties
of all ingredients to determine if such a composition is possible and what
should be the proper order of mixing the ingredients.
For every solid
ingredient, chemists may need to know the solubility, melting point,
hardness, vapor pressure and conductivity. By
learning about the relation between physical properties of a substance
and its intermolecular bonding, you may be able to predict the physical
properties of different substances just by knowing their chemical
formula.
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