Summary:
- A chemical property describes the ability of a substance to undergo a specific chemical change.
- Unlike physical properties, chemical properties can only be observed as the substance is in the process of being changed into a different substance.
- A chemical change is also called a chemical reaction.
- Zinc and sulfur are two elements that undergo a chemical.
- reaction when heated to from the compound zinc sulfide.
- The more general term for rusting and other similar processes is corrosion.
- Other terms that are commonly used in descriptions of chemical changes are burn, rot, explode, decompose and ferment.