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Chemistry: 3.3 Physical and Chemical Properties 198 Views
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We know it may be hard to resist but if something falls from outer space and lands in your backyard, you probably shouldn't immediately rush over and touch it. Get gloves first. And maybe watch this video while you wait for it to cool down.
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- 00:03
There are a few moments in each of our lives that we’ll remember forever:
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our 16th birthday, our wedding, the birth of our first child,
- 00:12
the first time a strange, glowing orb from outer space lands in our backyard…
- 00:17
Well, today is that day for Jimmy and Kimmy Clutterbuck.
- 00:21
They were out on their swing set trying to break the world record for height,
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when this thing just crashed into the family’s deck.
- 00:27
Opening up the orb, they discovered a strange, gloop-y blob inside.
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Being the passionate little scientists they are,
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they decided to do some experimenting.
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Well first, Kimmy said they should explore the blob’s physical properties.
- 00:40
Well, physical properties, she explained to her brother,
- 00:42
were all the properties of an object that could be observed
- 00:45
without fundamentally changing that object at a chemical level.
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So, for example, the blob was red. Color is a physical property.
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It weighed 75 pounds—strange for such a small blob, but
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weight is also a physical property, so Jimmy jotted it down.
- 01:01
The number and size of the substance was also a physical property the kids
- 01:05
could record. Well the number was easy—just one blob—but the size proved
- 01:09
to be a bit trickier, especially considering how it kept pulsating
- 01:12
and mutating in their hands.
- 01:14
However, they finally got it to sit still long enough to wrap a tape measure around it.
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Well taste is another physical property, but, wisely,
- 01:21
the kids decided not to lick the blob.
- 01:24
The Clutterbuck children went on to make notes about the blob’s density,
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odor, luster, hardness, and volume.
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They couldn’t seem to get it to either melt or boil no matter
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how hoard they tried, so it looked like they were done
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on the physical properties front.
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Kimmy also explained to Jimmy that they could further divide all their notes
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about physical properties into extensive and intensive properties.
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Well, the extensive properties are the ones that depend
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on the amount of the substance, like its weight and volume,
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while the intensive properties were anything that wouldn’t change
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no matter how knee-deep in blobs you were, like
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color, density, odor, and so on.
- 02:00
Once they were done, it was time to examine the blob’s chemical properties.
- 02:04
Chemical properties, Kimmy explained, were those properties
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that were not easily reversible and changed the chemical structure
- 02:10
of a substance. So once they dipped the blob in something,
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it might totally change it for good. The blob didn’t seem to like that idea.
- 02:18
The kids started by submerging the blob in water. Nothing.
- 02:21
The blob just seemed mildly irritated.
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But once they dunked the blob into a beaker full of acetic acid,
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well, the thing went haywire.
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The blob turned from red to a bright green,
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it started to fizz, and there were some bright orange sparks
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coming off the sides.
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It got very hot and emitted an odor similar to that given off by eggs
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that are three years past their expiration date… ew.
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Kimmy and Jimmy were having a hard time keeping up
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as they furiously jotted down notes in their notebooks.
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When the dust cleared, the blob was no more.
- 02:49
There was just a small, greenish-looking gentleman
- 02:51
who looked like he’d been through a major ordeal.
- 02:53
Oops… nobody said science was perfect.
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