Blog Post #12

 1. This week we learned about the properties of matter. We first started off by talking about matter and what it is again and recapping what we talked about last week. Then we began to start talking about the different properties that matter has. We then went on to test different properties such as whether it sinks or floats, volume, mass, conducting electricity, and magnetism. We found that there were a lot of different materials that would decide what kind of properties that certain materials have. For example, not all kinds of metals would be a conductor of electricity, we had things like paper clips and pennies that would conduct the electricity but the aluminum foil would not conduct as well as a couple of others things that we tested. The same was found with magnetism with only certain kinds of metals being magnetic and potentially including other metals that may cause an item that was magnetic before to lose its magnetism. 

2. I was able to relate the idea that I knew that some metals were conductors and magnetic while some were not and it can depend from object to object. I did not know about the idea that if you mix in a metal that is not magnetic with a magnetic object it can cause that object to lose its magnetism. It seems that even a small amount can cause that big change which is very interesting to see. 

5. One question that I have is how much of something that is not magnetic being added to something that is magnetic does it cause it to lose its magnetism? Are there any relations between properties for example mass and whether something floats?