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Q: What is something that changes color in ways that lets you identify a substance?
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What is something that changes color in ways that let you identify a substance?

Indicators such as litmus paper


What is something that changes color in ways that let you identify substances?

Indicators such as litmus paper


What is the difference between a phisical change and a chemical change?

A physical change is one you can see. It changes the size, shape, or color of something. A chemical change is one that changes the composition of something. Basically, when a substance is changed into a different substance.


What pyshical property helps identify a substance?

color,odor,texture,and shape.


How can physical properties be used to identify substance?

Every substance has certain properties that show things about them, such as odor, taste, malleability, hardness, color, state at room temperature, and melting/boiling point. If you know the color of a substance, it is far easier to determine what that substance is, and if you know the color and the boiling point, your choices are limited even further. Using the physical properties of a substance, you can identify the substance based off of its unique properties or combinations of properties.


What is it called when a substance changes color in response to pH?

This is a pH indicator.


Would you expect a pure substance to be the same color throughout?

no we cannot everything changes with time even a pure substance looses it's some of the properties after some time so the color also changes .


What do you call a substance which is used to show changes in pH by its change in color?

An indicator


What is a substance that changes color?

It is an indicator. If you don't know the answer check your science book.


What are the two physical properties that can help you identify a substance?

Color, freezing point, or even texture if the substance is solid.


When a metal changes color because it has reacted with another substance and what change occured?

Chemical


Example of result of chemical change?

something rusting, something burning. chemical changes can fool you because most of the time they change color and such. but if two substances mix to make a new substance than that is a chemical change.