Use Popupmenu with a table?

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1

I am fairly new to Mathematica, so I apologize if this question is very basic, but I was unable to find what I was looking for in other help documentation.
What I am wanting to do is create a pop up menu where someone could select the temperature of water, then assign all the corresponding values of the water properties at the temperature.
i.e.

PopupMenu[watertemp, {40, 45, 50, 55}]

Then based upon which temperature is selected assign the corresponding values to the viscosity, density, surface tension, etc. variables.

2

You can always do something easy like:

assignWaterProps[Dynamic[var_], temp_]:=
 (
   var["temp"]=temp;
   var["prop"]=calcProp[temp, "prop"];
   ...
  )

PopupMenu[Dynamic[temp, (assignWaterProps[Dynamic[var], #])&]

where var is whatever Symbol you’re storing your properties in.