Of or pertaining to the matter and energy of a material or the characteristics as applied to physics. For cellular rubber, this pertains to compression deflection, density, water absorption, tensile strength, elongation, etc.
Properties of a metal or alloy that are relatively insensitive to structure and can be measured without the application of force; for example, density, electrical conductivity, coefficient of thermal expansion, magnetic permeability and lattice parameter. Does not include chemical reactivity. Compare with mechanical properties.
(phys'-i-cal prop'-er-ties) The characteristics of a mineral that are a direct result of their chemical composition and atomic structure, and that can be used to determine the identity of the mineral, including but not limited to crystal form and habit, cleavage, fracture, density, tenacity, color and streak (color of powdered mineral), luster, and magnetism.
Those properties of a material such as specific gravity or density, electrical and thermal conductivities, and co-efficient of thermal expansion, which serve to characterise and distinguish between different materials.
The properties of a material that are relatively insensitive to structure and can be measured without the application of force. Examples are density, melting temperature, damping capacity, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion, magnetic properties, and electrical properties.
Those properties familiarly discussed in physics exclusive of those described under mechanical properties; for example, density, electrical conductivity, coeffecient of thermal expan?sion. This term has often been used to describe mechanical properties but this usage is not recommended. See mechanical properties.
Those which result from the relations of bodies to the physical agents, light, heat, electricity, gravitation, cohesion, adhesion, etc., and which are exhibited without a change in the composition or kind of matter acted on. They are color, luster, opacity, transparency, hardness, sonorousness, density, crystalline form, solubility, capability of osmotic diffusion, vaporization, boiling, fusion, etc.
Compared to mechanical properties, physical properties can be measured without destroying or changing the material. Colour, density and transparency are two physical properties.
Qualitative and Quantitative properties that describe a substance. They include smell, taste, color, melting point, density, hardness etc.
A series of measurements that are unaffected by microstructure and taken without applied force to reveal a metal product's coefficient of thermal expansion, density, electrical conductivity, heat capacity, and magnetic permeability.
The properties, other than mechanical properties, that pertain to the physics of a material; for example, density, electrical conductivity, heat conductivity, thermal expansion.
Properties of a material that relate to the physical states common to all substances, i.e. a solid, a liquid, or a gas. A property of matter that describes only its condition, not the way it reacts with other substances. Examples are size, density, color, and electrical conductivity.
Properties of matter such as density, electrical and thermal conductivity, expansion, and specific heat. This term should not be used interchangeably with "mechanical properties."
