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GCSE Chemistry · key term
A property of a material made from many particles, such as its melting point, hardness or conductivity.
Used by AQA and OCR
Specification 4.2.2.1 · Paper 1
A property of a large sample of material, such as its melting point, rather than a property of one individual atom or molecule.
Revise: States of MatterMelting point, boiling point and state are bulk properties, so an individual atom does not possess the bulk properties of the material made from many atoms.
Specification C2.3f · Paper 1 (Foundation), Paper 3 (Higher)
Do not describe an individual atom as hard, malleable or electrically conducting. These are bulk properties arising from many particles together.
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A characteristic shown by a large collection of particles making up a material, such as melting point, electrical conductivity or hardness.
A material contains an enormous number of particles. Its bulk properties are the properties we observe or measure for the material as a whole: for example, whether it is solid at room temperature, how readily it melts, whether it conducts electricity and how it responds to a force.
A property of a material that arises from large numbers of particles acting together, such as malleability or electrical conductivity.
Paper 1 (Foundation), Paper 2 (Foundation), Paper 3 (Higher), Paper 4 (Higher)
A property that belongs to a large collection of particles making up a sample, rather than to one isolated particle.
Revise: The particle modelOne copper atom does not possess the electrical conductivity of a copper wire. Those bulk properties arise from the behaviour and interactions of very many particles together.
An observable property of a material as a whole, such as its melting point, solubility or electrical conductivity.
A property of a substance as a whole, such as its melting point or boiling point.