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Is hardness extensive or intensive

Updated: 8/9/2023
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9y ago

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No matter what size a sample is, if is hard, it will still be just as hard. This means that hardness is an intensive properties. Intensive properties do not matter what size of sample is being used. Extensive properties will change if sample size is changed.

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11y ago

Hardness, as far as being the hardness of a material, is a physical Is_hardness_a_extensive_or_intensive_physical_propertyof a system that does not depend on the system size or the amount of material in the system: it is scale invariant.

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Both it depends in what way

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3y ago

hardness is intensive.

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