CHEMICAL PROPERTY

The phrase "Chemical property" is context-dependent, but generally refers to the material's behaviour at ambient conditions (i.e. room temperature, 1 atmosphere pressure, oxygen-bearing atmosphere). This property becomes apparent during a chemical reaction, and can only be observed by changing a substance's chemical identity.

A usefully general term, it is used to encompass

• electronegativity
• ionization potential
• flammability
• preferred oxidation state(s)
• coordination number
• preferred types of bonds to form e.g., metallic, ionic, covalent

Chemical properties can be used for building chemical classifications.

Ionic substance

An ionic substance is a substance of 2 ions which are chemically bound together, they make this bond by the cation giving the anion electrons so they will have a full outer shell and they will be stable.

See also

• Periodic table: Periodic table group, Ionic
• People: Linus Pauling
• Lists: List of chemistry topics, List of biochemistry topics
• Physical property
• Materials property