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What happens to the characteristics of a substance during a physical change?
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∙ 11y ago
The change in characteristics is entirely dependent on how you have physically changed it. However most physical changes effect shape and size.
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What happens during a physical change?
In a physical change, color, shape, state, temperature, or texture can change. None of these effect the changes substance's chemical properties.
What does not change when a substance changes matter?
During a physical change, the matter of what the substance is made out of doesn't change.
What happens when a physical reaction occurs?
For example, the change in the state of matter.
A physical change that does not produce a new substance is called what?
physical change
What is the term for a process that does not change the identity of a substance?
Many physical changes will not alter the identity. However, some physical changes, such as heating or cooling will result in phase changes and so the identity will be different. While ice and water are chemically the same, they are not identical forms of the substance.
When would substance change while not changing the characteristics?
Its physical property
What kind of change happens when the composition of a substance does not change?
Physical changes, such as the change from ice to water to steam; the compound remains as H2O in all three states.
What is the differences between chemical and physical change?
A chemical change involves a change in a substance's chemical properties (characteristics that describe how it interacts with other substances).A physical change involves a change in a substance's physical properties(characteristics that describe certain features one can see with their 5 senses).
Compare and contrast chemical and physical properties?
Physical properties are characteristics of a pure substance that can be observed without changing it into another substance. Chemical properties are characteristics of a pure substance that describes its ability to change into different substance.
What happens when you take the heat away from a substance?
Physical change
What happens to a substance in physical change?
it means figure it out yourself!
What kind of change happens when a substance dissolves?
I want to say physical change
What happens When a substance goes through a physical change?
The Substances die
What happens to particle size when a substance undergoes physical change?
It enlarges
What happens to the identity of a substance when it makes a physical change?
there is to types of change to a substance chemical and physical in a physical change the result is a mixture also most times you can change your end result into what you started with e.g.freeze-melt evaporate-condesate
What are the characteristic of physical change?
Some common characteristics of physical changes are change in texture, change in shape, and change in state. There can also be a change in temperature and a change in color, but these are also common characteristics of chemical changes. A physical change does not change the composition of the original substance.
Change 3 explain what happens to the identity of a substance in a physical change 4- explain what causes a substance to change from one state to another 5- explan what happens to particle size?
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