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Nope, bases actually gives soaps their useful properties.
What ARE material properties? Otherwise known as characteristics, these are the things that make a material useful. Mechanical properties: Ductility (elastic or plastic) Brittleness (stiffness), compression, tension, torque, shear, toughness, & hardness. Electrical properties: conductor, insulator, semiconductor Thermal properties: conductor or insulator Optical properties: transparent, translucent, reflective, opaque.
All properties are useful there is no one property that is "least useful".
If you are stuck with metal for example you can heat it
inorganic chemistry
Constituents, appearance, shape, and taste are used to classifying materials. This is useful because materials with similar properties can be placed in the same category.
In classifying rocks, there are many properties that can be useful. In my opinion, either color or texture is most useful in classifying a rock or mineral.
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This is necessary because we need more and more special materials with interesting and useful characteristics.
Chemistry
Industrial microbiology deals with the creation of useful products from microorganisms. It is related to chemistry because both fields are involved in studying chemical properties.
to tell if they are alike without classifying you would not be able to identify something that is alike
Technology design involve a knowledge of the flowing properties of materials. Viscosity is dependent on temperature and pressure.
taxonomy key
Classifying chemicals by their chemical properties, like their chemical functions, or the way they react chemically, allows them to be grouped together according to their functions.
Its mineral composition.
Nanotechnology is about material, but in material science you work with any scale of them. if you decrease size of material's particle to nanometer, then you can find some useful properties. nanotechnology is working with materials in nanoscale.