Question

Why is density a characteristic property of an object, but volume is not?

Answer 1

Answer:

Because density is mass divided by volume and it will always stay the same for a certain substance while mass and volume will always vary.

Answer 2

Density classifies as a characteristic explicitly and volume does not. For something to have a characteristic, this means that it is something used to show what exactly that something is. For example, you can have 3 lead blocks of different sizes but they all have the same substance which is lead. The density will all be the same for all 3 blocks, but the volume is different for each object, meaning that the size of the object is different. Hope this helps!