## Extensive/Intensive Property [ENDORSED]

isochoric/isometric: $\Delta V = 0$
isothermal: $\Delta T = 0$
isobaric: $\Delta P = 0$

Connie2I
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### Extensive/Intensive Property

What does being an intensive/extensive property mean?

Kelly Seto 2J
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### Re: Extensive/Intensive Property

Extensive properties depend of the amount of substance or matter measured while intensive properties, like boiling point and density, do not

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### Re: Extensive/Intensive Property

To add to the above response, you can also consider heat capacity vs. specific heat capacity.

The heat capacity of a bomb calorimeter, for example, does not depend on the amount of substance because it is a defined object. It has a specified mass for which to measure it's heat capacity, and we cannot change that mass-- we do not consider it. Therefore, we measure the heat capacity of the calorimeter as a whole. This makes heat capacity an intensive property to the calorimeter.

On the other hand, specific heat capacity is measured in the units J/°C* g. As you can tell, it measures how many joules it will take to raise ONE GRAM of a substance by one degree celsius. Therefore, because specific heat capacity is dependent on the amount of a substance, it is an extensive property. We need to measure the amount of substance before we find specific heat.

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### Re: Extensive/Intensive Property

Intensive properties do not depend on quantity while extensive do. Intensive are preferred because they are more standardized.

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### Re: Extensive/Intensive Property  [ENDORSED]

You can change an extensive property to intensive by dividing it by something like mass so that it is not "dependent" anymore