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Boiling it doesn't change the compounds into different ones. All it does is change their physical state (liquid to gas). For example, steam is still H2O, just like water. If you add acid to a metal, the metal will actually change composition, like from zinc with no charge, to zinc with a positive charge that is combined with another molecule. It is no longer the same, and a physical change, like cooling it, won't bring it back to what it originally was.

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