macroscopic properties

(noun)

properties that can be visualized or measured by the naked eye; examples include pressure, temperature, and volume

Related Terms

  • ideal gas

Examples of macroscopic properties in the following topics:

  • Kinetic Molecular Theory and Gas Laws

    • Kinetic Molecular Theory explains the macroscopic properties of gases and can be used to understand and explain the gas laws.
    • The Kinetic Molecular Theory of Gases comes from observations that scientists made about gases to explain their macroscopic properties.
    • Uses the kinetic theory of gases to explain properties of gases (expandability, compressibility, etc. )
  • Ionic vs Covalent Bond Character

    • Though ionic and covalent character represent points along a continuum, these designations are frequently useful in understanding and comparing the macroscopic properties of ionic and covalent compounds.
  • Microstates and Entropy

    • The interpretation of entropy is the measure of uncertainty, which remains about a system after its observable macroscopic properties, such as temperature, pressure, and volume, have been taken into account.
    • For a given set of macroscopic variables, the entropy measures the degree to which the probability of the system is spread out over different possible microstates.
  • Introduction to Bonding

    • These atomic properties help describe the macroscopic properties of compounds.
  • The Kinetic Molecular Theory of Matter

    • The kinetic molecular theory of matter offers a description of the microscopic properties of atoms (or molecules) and their interactions, leading to observable macroscopic properties (such as pressure, volume, temperature).
  • Esters

    • Their flexibility and low polarity affects their physical properties on a macroscopic scale; they tend to be less rigid, leading to a lower melting point, and more volatile, leading to a lower boiling point, than the corresponding amides.
  • The de Broglie Wavelength

    • Thus it became apparent that light has both wave-like and particle-like properties.
    • Before the acceptance of the de Broglie hypothesis, diffraction was a property that was thought to only be exhibited by waves.
    • Even macroscopic objects like tennis balls have a calculable de Broglie wavelength; however, they would be much too small to observe experimentally, and their wave-like nature is not intuitive to common experience.
  • Conformational Enantiomorphism

    • Since a significant proportion of the meso-tartaric acid molecules in a sample will have chiral conformations, the achiral properties of the sample (e.g. optical inactivity) should not be attributed to the symmetry of the Fischer formula.
    • Since enantiomers have equal potential energies, they will be present in equal concentration, thus canceling their macroscopic optical activity and other chiral behavior.
  • Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter

    • Both extensive and intensive properties are physical properties, which means they can be measured without changing the substance's chemical identity.
    • Physical properties are properties that can be measured or observed without changing the chemical nature of the substance.
    • Some examples of physical properties are:
    • Remember, the definition of a chemical property is that measuring that property must lead to a change in the substance's chemical structure.
    • Here are several examples of chemical properties:
  • Ionic Bonding and Electron Transfer

    • At the macroscopic scale, ionic compounds form lattices, are crystalline solids under normal conditions, and have high melting points.
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