Chemical Conservation Lab

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The question posed for the conservation lab was: what happens to the mass of a system in a chemical reaction? When new substances are produced in a reaction we say a chemical change has occurred. These changes are very difficult, sometimes impossible, to reverse. Atoms are not created or destroyed in a chemical reaction, they are just rearranged from the reactants to form the products. This is the reason why symbol equations must be balanced. If a chemical reaction is completed in a closed system (when nothing extra can get in and nothing can escape), then the mass will remain constant. But, if the chemical reaction happens in an open system (where air can get in and out), then mass may appear to change. We first took the mass of a plastic

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