Answer : The characteristic properties of a substance always remains the same irrespective of the sample being observed is large or small.
Few examples of characteristic properties of any substances includes freezing or melting point, boiling or condensing point, density, viscosity and solubility. They are specific for specific substances and which makes them easily recognizable.
Whereas chemical properties are specific for one substance which chemically transformed into another substances.
The simplest way to put it is that chemical properties is how the substance works with other substances. And characteristic properties are how it's described, like characteristics of a person. Is that helpful? A bit, at least?
