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Chemical property

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).

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

See also

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

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