Question

Which of these is a chemical property of gasoline?

a. density
b. how it burns
c. boiling point
d. its odor

Answer 1

Examples of physical properties are: color, smell, freezing point, boiling point, melting point, infra-red spectrum, attraction (paramagnetic) or repulsion (diamagnetic) to magnets, opacity, viscosity and density. There are many more examples. Note that measuring each of these properties will not alter the basic nature of the substance.

Examples of chemical properties are: heat of combustion, reactivity with water, PH, and electromotive force answer is a

Answer 2

Answer: Option (b) is the correct answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

A property that does not bring any change in chemical composition of a substance are known as physical properties.

For example, shape, size, mass, volume, density, etc of a substance are all physical properties.

And, a property that changes chemical composition of a substance is known as chemical property.

For example, precipitation, reactivity, toxicity etc are chemical property.

So, a property that shows how gasoline burns depicts a chemical property.

Thus, we can conclude that out of the given options how it burns is a chemical property of gasoline.