Besides smelling, touching and looking at the physical appearance of a substance, there are other ways to know for sure what that substance is. This is where chemical properties come in. A chemical property is a property of a substance that is observed when a substance undergoes a chemical change. The chemical change is a type of change that also changes the identity of a substance due to breakage and formation of new chemical bonds, as shown in the figure below: The figure shows a chemical change where two substances, A and B, form and break bonds with each other and other substances, C and D.
As of 2014, dimes have the smallest diameter of any U.S. coin and are also the thinnest. A penny is 1.52 mm thick with a diameter of 19.05 millimeters. It weighs 2.5 grams and has plain edges. A nickel is 1.95 millimeters thick with a diameter of 21.21 millimeters. It weighs 5 grams and has plain edges. A quarter is 1.75 millimeters thick and has a diameter of 24.26 millimeters.
A. One nickel weighs exactly as much as two dimes but less than a quarter. . . If you cut a quarter into 10 equal pieces, each piece would weigh 0.57 grams. If you had 75 of those pieces, the total weight would be the same as the weight of 19 dimes. This information is accurate to two decimal places, but is only the average of the three nickels I happen to have in my pocket today :-).