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Yes, physical is only appearance, and chemical is changing it properties. If I cut wood, it's still wood. It has not changed.
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Is cutting a rope a physical change?
Cutting a rope is a physical change. Burning a rope, or disolving it in acid, would be a chemical change.
What are examples of chemical and physical change?
melting any metal is physical. rusting iron is chemical
Is the cutting of trees a physical or chemical change?
The act of cutting the tree is a physical change. However, there are chemical changes that take place as a result of cutting the tree. All plants have an ability to "feel" when they are being damaged and the plant cells around the damaged ones stiffen to attempt to prevent further damage.
Is a pellet of sodium is sliced in two a physical change or a chemical change?
Physical, because each slice of pellet is still the same chemically: you have merely divided your one sodium block into two blocks of sodium. If it were chemical, some kind of notable chemical difference would have occurred (you would no longer have sodium, but something else).
What task in the kitchen is an example of a physical change?
when you mix an egg with water or milk the eggs become liquid.
Is grinding matter a physical change?
grinding any substance would by a physical change, because they are still that object
What would cause physical change in a bar steel?
Cutting the bar in half, melting it, heating it, grinding or filing it, drilling holes in it- and it is still steel. It has not changed chemically.
Is cutting a rope a physical change?
Cutting a rope is a physical change. Burning a rope, or disolving it in acid, would be a chemical change.
Is cutting wood into 10 pieces a physical or chemical change?
That change would be physical, since the chemical identity of the wood has not been altered by cutting it.
What are examples of chemical and physical change?
melting any metal is physical. rusting iron is chemical
Is the cutting of trees a physical or chemical change?
The act of cutting the tree is a physical change. However, there are chemical changes that take place as a result of cutting the tree. All plants have an ability to "feel" when they are being damaged and the plant cells around the damaged ones stiffen to attempt to prevent further damage.
Is cutting a string into two pieces chemical or physical change?
Unless you use something hot enough to burn the string it would only be a physical change.
Is grinding of mercury and iodine physical change or chemical change?
Grinding mercury or iodine would be a physical change - you are changing the shape but not the element. However, grinding mercury with iodine may be a chemical change if you end up with mercury iodide through a chemical reaction. Incidentally, I don't recommend actually trying this - mercury is a liquid at room temperature (it is also called quicksilver for this reason) and is very toxic to humans.
Is cutting your finger a chemical change?
One might think that cutting your finger would simply be a physical change. However, because cutting your finger involves severing chemical bonds in tissues of the finger through mechanical stress, this would actually result in some chemical change. Now, cutting a fingernail would represent a physical change.
Is cutting a marshmallow a physical change?
Yes. You still have marshmallow at the end of the cut so it must be physical. If you burnt the marshmallow, that would be chemical.
Is cutting the lawn a chemical change or physical change?
It is a physical change because paper is still paper and its the same even if it has been cut. If the paper were say to get burned it would be chemical change because it is no longer paper and it has a different form.
Why cutting a piece of plastic a physical change?
Because the change in the bonds of the plastic while cutting it can never be the same again once cut. You could melt it back, but it would still be different.
