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Why are mass and volume extensive properties and why is density an intensive property?

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Answer: Density is an intensive property because there is a narrow range of densities across the samples. No matter what the initial mass was, densities were essentially the same. Since intensive properties do not depend on the amount of material, the data indicate that density is an intensive property of matter.

Density is an intensive property of matter that illustrates how much mass a substance has in a given amount of volume.

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