Introduction:
Most chemicals
in their pure form have no use for household consumers.
Other manufacturers purchase pure chemicals and make
certain compositions that are useful for the consumer
market. Before doing that, chemists need to test
physical properties of all ingredients to determine if
such a composition is possible and what should be the
proper order of mixing the ingredients.
For every
solid ingredient, chemists may need to know the
solubility, melting point, hardness, vapor pressure and
conductivity. By
learning about the relation between physical properties
of a substance and its intermolecular bonding, you may
be able to predict the physical properties of different
substances just by knowing their chemical formula.
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