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.
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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.
It can be bent, and it conducts electricity.
Plastic is a property of metal for electricians
Plastic is a property of metal for electricians
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They can be used as a base material for computer chips
to tell if they are alike without classifying you would not be able to identify something that is alike
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.
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.
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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.