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Technically it's neither. It's actually a physics principal called an inelastic collision. It just the use of kinetic energy to break the intermolecular forces that hold the shell in one piece. I suppose you could consider it to the a physical change, because nothing changes on a chemical basis... But I would certainly argue that there is no "change" going on.

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