Chemical property
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The phrase "Chemical property" is context driven, but generally refers to the material's behaviour at standard conditions (i.e. room temperature, 1 atmosphere pressure, oxygen bearing atmosphere). This property becomes apparent during a chemical reaction.
A usefully general term, it is used to encompass, amongst other things:
- the phase of matter; solid, liquid or gas
- the material's reactivity towards other materials
- preferred oxidation state(s)
- molecular shape and bond orientation
- bond length
- coordination number
- preferred types of bonds to form eg metallic, ionic, covalent