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According to the law of conservation of matter (or mass), you can not create or destroy matter (or mass). You only transform it.

The law is most relevant to chemical processing where matter changes form dramatically, but if you do a careful accounting of all elements going into a chemical process, the quantity and mass of every element coming out totals up to the same as went in. This is, of course, important in engineering applications as well.

To get technical though, the simple version of the law is not correct in exotic circumstances. Elements do change when there is radioactivity and in such circumstances the mass changes slightly as well. When one is extremely precise in stating this conservation law, one must include the special theory of relativity and Einstein's famous equation, energy equal mass time the square of the speed of light. So, technically, mass and energy combined are conserved.

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