Chemical property
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A '''chemical property''' is any of a material's properties that becomes evident during a [[chemical reaction]]; that is, any quality that can be established only by changing a substance's [[Chemical substance|chemical identity]]. Simply speaking, chemical properties cannot be determined just by viewing or touching the substance; the substance's [[Chemical structure|internal structure]] must be affected for its chemical properties to be investigated.
Chemical properties can be contrasted with [[physical properties]], which can be discerned without changing the substance's structure. However, for many properties within the scope of [[physical chemistry]] (and other disciplines at the border of chemistry and physics), the distinction may be a matter of researcher's [[Perspective (cognitive)|perspective]]. [[Material properties]] (both physical and chemical) can be viewed as [[supervenient]]; i.e., secondary to the underlying reality. Several layers of superveniency are possible.
Chemical properties can be used for building [[chemical classification]]s.
==Examples of chemical properties==
* [[Electronegativity]]
* [[Ionization potential]]
* [[pH balance]]
* [[Reactivity]] against other [[chemical substance]]s
* [[Heat of combustion]]
* [[Enthalpy of formation]]
* [[Toxicity]]
* [[Chemical stability]] in a given environment
* [[Flammability]]
* Preferred [[oxidation state]](s)
* [[Coordination number]]
* Capability to undergo a certain set of transformations e.g. molecular [[dissociation (chemistry)|dissociation]], chemical [[combination]], [[reduction (chemistry)|redox]] reactions under certain physical conditions in the presence of another [[chemical substance]]
* Preferred types of [[chemical bond|bonds]] to form e.g., [[metallic]], [[ion|ionic]], [[covalent]]
== See also ==
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* [[Physical property]]
* [[Chemical structure]]
* [[Material properties]]
* [[Biological activity]]
* [[QSAR]], quantitative structure-affinity relationship
* [[Lipinski's Rule of Five]], describing molecular properties of drugs
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