Chemical Change Lab

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The purpose for completing this lab was to further clarify what a chemical and physical change is. The purpose was to help those struggling to see the difference between what a physical and chemical difference is. You could tell the difference between the two because the physical changes were the ones that only seemed to be physically changed by such things as appearance, while chemical changes such as the paper burning had a whole new chemical to express it. A physical change is one that alters an objects outward appearance such as the way it smells, or looks. A chemical change is one that alters the chemicals in an object to form a new chemical substance. An example of a physical change from the experiment above is paper being ripped into many small pieces. The reason this is a physical change is because only the appearance of the paper has changed. The chemical make-up of the paper has changed, just the out word look of the paper has changed. A real world example of physical change is an ice cube is changing. This is considered a physical change because it is only a change in matter because it is just changing from a solid to a liquid. It is the same liquid except it is now in a different shape or form. An example of a chemical change is the NaCl water mixture being mixed with AgNO3 because something completely new was formed by these two…show more content…
Chemical and physical changes can seem similar when you are looking at the broad picture, but to get the true results you must look up close. The results of this experiments are that by observing you can tell whether a chemical or physical change is occurring. The way to tell if an experiment was a chemical of physical change was for physical to look at the outside odor and appearance, while for chemical change you must look to see if something new was

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