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There is a wealth of data for various chemicals available through Mathematica. For instance:

ChemicalData["Water", "Density"]
(* 1000. kg/(m)^3 *)

Module[{formula = ChemicalData["Water", "Formula"],
plot = ChemicalData["Water", "MoleculePlot"]}, Labeled[plot, formula, Bottom, Frame -> True]]

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How does one ask for property data at specific conditions (i.e., temperature, pressure, phase, etc.)? I've been looking through the Wolfram help and tutorials, but I haven't run across this particular case.

It seems like this should be possible using queries to Wolfram Alpha as well, but I'd rather take advantage of native Mathematica functionality if it's available.

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    $\begingroup$ related: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/17653/… $\endgroup$
    – george2079
    Feb 11, 2015 at 15:03
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    $\begingroup$ The ChemicalData help page states: If not otherwise specified, physical properties are given for standard temperature and pressure. This may imply that properties for other conditions are not available. $\endgroup$ Feb 11, 2015 at 15:31
  • $\begingroup$ You could try asking W|A and then convert to Mma code to see if it is possible. $\endgroup$ Feb 11, 2015 at 21:48

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What you want here is ThermodynamicData. The available properties are

ThermodynamicData["Properties"] 

(* {"CriticalDensity", "CriticalEnthalpy", "CriticalEntropy", 
"CriticalInternalEnergy", "CriticalPressure", "CriticalTemperature", 
"Density", "Enthalpy", "Entropy", "InternalEnergy", 
"IsobaricHeatCapacity", "IsochoricHeatCapacity", 
"LiquidVaporPhaseBoundary", "MolarDensity", "MolarEnthalpy", 
"MolarEntropy", "MolarInternalEnergy", "MolarIsobaricHeatCapacity", 
"MolarIsochoricHeatCapacity", "MolarSpecificVolume", "Name", "Phase", 
"SolidLiquidPhaseBoundary", "SolidVaporPhaseBoundary", "SoundSpeed", 
"SpecificVolume", "ThermalConductivity", "TriplePointGasDensity", 
"TriplePointLiquidDensity", "TriplePointPressure", 
"TriplePointSolidDensity", "TriplePointTemperature", "Viscosity"} *)

But not all of those are functions of temperature or pressure. There is a list of properties which depend on these parameters in the documentation, but below I just filter them out.

propertiesTP = 
  ThermodynamicData["Properties"] // 
   DeleteCases[_?(StringMatchQ[#, 
        "Critical*" | "Triple*" | "*Phase*" | "Name"] &)];

temps = Quantity[Range[0, 99], "DegreesCelsius"];
ListLinePlot[
   Thread[
    {temps,
     ThermodynamicData["Water", #, {"Temperature" -> temps}]}
    ], AxesLabel -> Automatic, PlotLabel -> #, 
   ImageSize -> 250] & /@ propertiesTP

Mathematica graphics

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density = 
 Table[{i, 
   WolframAlpha[
    StringJoin["Water Density ", ToString[i], 
     " celsius"], {{"Result", 1}, "NumberData"}]}, {i, 1, 99}]

ListPlot[density, PlotTheme -> "Scientific", 
 FrameLabel -> {"Temperature (C)", "Density kg/m3"}, 
 PlotLabel -> "Water Density vs Temperature"]

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