Question

2. Magnesium (Mg) can be described as a bright silver metal that is malleable at room

temperature, conducts heat and electricity, and is combustible in the presence of
oxygen. Explain which of these is a chemical property and which is a physical property.

Answer 1

Magnesium being a “bright silver metal that is malleable at room temperature,” is a physical property. You are given a physical description of what Magnesium looks like, and malleability is a physical property as well.

Conductivity of heat and/or electricity is a physical property.

Combustibility is a chemical property.