British Sign Language Glossaries of Curriculum Terms

BSL Chemistry Glossary - properties - definition

Definition: A property means information about something. For example the pH of water and lemon juice is different; they have different properties. You can snap a piece of wood but you can't do that with a piece of metal. Metal isn't brittle. Wood and metals have different properties. Petrol is highly flammable whereas water isn't. They have different properties.