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properties of metals

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[edit] shininess

I noticed that 'shininess' was listed as a physical property. Would albedo be a better choice? Additionally, could 'scattering light' be replaced with refraction --69.134.204.227 (talk) 21:57, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ummm....slight adjustment to your thought

a physical property is not based on the amount of the substance. mass, volume, temperature, and shape are not properties... properties are characteristics that allow chemists to distinguish and organize between substances. physical properties include: density, melting point, boiling point, hardness, ductility, malleability, shine, structure (crystaline), and color (I believe that there are more, but I can't remember them at this time)

...nice work though

74.237.244.61 01:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Physical Properties for silver please I need to know by tonight!!

I was just wondering what the physical properties for silver were. I'm doing a Podcast on silver. I have to...sigh... Anyways, I need to know by tonight. Today is the 4th so, don't bother replying if it is past 11:00 on the 4th. Please I really need to know. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.144.154.13 (talk) 02:42, 5 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Guns?

Maybe there is somthing I'm missing, but why are the links "machine gun", and "guns" in the also see part of this page? Illadar 20:21, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I wasnt sure how to ask a question on this but what is an example of a physical property? And what is an example Chemical Property? For example someone else said Physical property was melting butter and chemical property was mixing water with jello to make gellatin..I am supossed to come up with a different one but the rest of the class took all of the ones out of the book first...Thanks

[edit] problems

Some philosophers would argue that love and anger are part of the mechanics of the universe in that they are causes of physical repercusions that are not themselves entirely physically caused. This contradicts the principle of the absolute causal closure of physics, but the latter is neither an indisputable fact, nor, incidentally, any proper article of physics itself, being rather metaphysics.

Also, anger can be perceived without this changing its identity, but is that supposed to make it physical? Arguably, it can even be measured in terms of how it feels, and this would not change its identity either. The same things can be said about love, which makes the defintion of a physical property in this article look rather poor given that it uses anger and love as examples non-physical properties. I realise that all this may seem pedantic, but something so general as a definition of a physical property, especially on wiki, should not be so open to contradiction, or at least be presented in a more qualified or tentative manner than a straight up front assertion. We don't want to be accidentally feeding people, especially earnest and enquiring young minds, anything worse than they deserve.

[edit] Agreed

I've updated it to remove the controversial parts. There's probably another wiki page (measurement? perception?) that goes into this topic in greater depth. Mebden (talk) 11:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

   hi does anyone know the phsical properties of c0t5h19? Anyone? i need to know.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boustin (talk • contribs) 17:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)