
Episode 9: Matter and Molecules
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Different Types of Chemical Properties
Most things that we see and interact with in ordinary life are actually mixtures. Water or at least water with any impurities in it which is you know pretty much any water in the real world and air are all actually mixtures because they don't have definite chemical formulas. Air by the way is a mixture of mostly about I think 70% nitrogen, most of the rest is oxygen and then there's a little bit of carbon dioxide and other bits and pieces of everything else. So air is a mixture. Now atoms, elements, molecules, compounds, all those things have two different types of properties that we can talk about, physical properties and chemical properties. Chemical properties are those that become evident
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