What is the best method to classify a chemical substance?

Limitations

Risk Assessment

Background Information

Variables

Potential Risks

Testing Methods

Bunsen Burner: Burns to skin, hair, create noxious chemical fumes, can serve as an ignition source for other flammable materials, and can heat non-flammable surfaces to high temperatures.

Different Bonds

Hammer: Damage fingers and other body parts, damage to surfaces, cause damage to other people.

Covalent Bonding: the interatomic linkage that results from the sharing of an electron pair between two atoms.

Ionic Bonding: type of linkage formed from the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions in a chemical compound

Metallic Bonding: a type of chemical bonding that arises from the electrostatic attractive force between conduction electrons and positively charged metal ions.

Limitation 1: Don't know what the five elements are (Dont know the names)

Ionic Bonds: One way would be to dissolve them in water. Ionic compounds will break into ions and allow the solution to conduct an electric current, whereas covalently bonded substances will not. Another way would be to find the substance's melting point.

Metallic Bonds: During a flame test, chemists take an unknown metal and put it under a flame. The flame will turn different colors based on which metal is in the substance.

Covalent Bonds: dissolve a compound into water than place an electrical source in it if it reacts to the electricity than it is ionic if nothing happens than it is covalent.

Uncontrolled Variable: Cannot control what substances each individual gets.

Dependent Variable: The five unknown Substances

A chemical bond is a lasting attraction between atoms or ions that enables the formation of molecules, crystals, and other structures.

How to find what bond a substance has: There is a couple different ways to determine if a bond is ionic or covalent. By definition, an ionic bond is between a metal and a nonmetal, and a covalent bond is between 2 nonmetals. So you usually just look at the periodic table and determine whether your compound is made of a metal/nonmetal or is just 2 nonmetals.

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Conductivity

Melting point/Boiling point

solubility

odour

Ductility

lustre

appearance

temperature

colour

formation of bubbles

formation of a gas, liquid or a solid

Burns

Fire

Poisoning

Explosion

Corrosion

Skin irritants

Eye irritants