Classify the following as physical or chemical properties: The composition of a sample of steel is, $98 \%$ iron, $1.5 \%$ carbon and $0.5 \%$ other elements.
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It is a physical property as no new compound is formed because steel is an alloy and alloy is a homogeneous mixture of two or more metals or of metallic elements with non-metallic elements.
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