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Question
What will you take into account while identifying the following?
A chemical change in a substance.
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Solution
Chemical changes are changes that involve the reaction of substances with one another. Such reactions result in alterations in the chemical compositions of the substances involved. These changes lead to the formation of new substances.
Characteristics:
- One or more new substances are formed during a chemical change.
- Most chemical changes cannot be reversed easily.
- The chemical composition of a substance undergoing chemical change does not remain the same.
- A chemical change is always accompanied by a change in energy.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Classify the following as chemical or physical change:
Melting of butter in a pan
Tick the most appropriate answer
2. Melting of ice is a
- reversible change
- irreversible change
- chemical change
- none of these
Classify the following changes as physical or chemical:-boiling
Name two reversible changes.
Classify the following as physical or chemical changes :
- Cooking of food
- Boiling of water
- Cutting of trees
- D0issolving salt in water
- Digestion of food
- Melting of ice
Classify the following as physical or chemical change :
Growth of a plant
Read the paragraph and note down the various types of changes it mentions.
It was nearing six o'clock in the evening. The sun was setting. A breeze was blowing. Leaves on the tree were shaking. Sahil was sitting in the courtyard, rolling balls of wet soil, and shaping them into various toys. Then he felt hungry and went into the house. Mother made a dough from wheat flour and fried purees. While eating hot purees, his attention was drawn outside the window. It had started raining. There was lightning, too. Sahil was enjoying his dinner in the dim light.
Assertion: Burning of wood log to charcoal is a physical change.
Reason: The products formed of burning a piece of wood can be easily converted back to wood log.
Ice, water and water vapour look different and display different ______ properties but they are ______ the same.
Match the items of Column I with the items of Column II.
| Column I | Column II | ||
| (a) | Large crystals | (i) | Turns lime water into milky |
| (b) | Depositing a layer of zinc on iron | (ii) | Physical change |
| (c) | Souring of milk | (iii) | Rust |
| (d) | Carbon dioxide | (iv) | Sugar candy (Mishri) |
| (e) | Iron oxide | (v) | Chemical change |
| (f) | Dissolving common salt in water | (vi) | Galvanisation |
