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Question
State the Differences Between a Physical Change and a Chemical Change.
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Solution
State the differences between a physical change and a chemical change.
| Property | Physical change | Chemical Change |
| Formation of new | There are no new substan | New substances with different |
| substance | ces formed in a physical change. | properties are formed in a chemical changes. |
| Nature of change. | It is usually easy to reverse the process, thereby regain -ing the original substance. | It is usually irreversible. |
| Energy | Generally energy is neither absorbed nor evolved. | Considerable heat energy is either absorbed or evolved when a chemical change takes place. |
| Mass | There is no change in the mass of the substance after a physical change. | Mass of a substance changes after a chemical change. |
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