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Chemical change. Physical changes (like melting) can be undone. But you cannot unbake a cake.

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What causes a physical change and not a chemical change A Tearing a tissue paper B Burning a match C Baking a cake?

Tearing a tissue paper is a physical change because it involves a change in the physical state of the paper without altering its chemical composition. The other options, burning a match and baking a cake, involve chemical changes as they result in new substances being formed through chemical reactions.


Is a cake that is baked in the oven a physical or chemical?

Baking a cake in the oven is a chemical change. The heat from the oven causes the chemical reactions in the ingredients (like flour, eggs, and sugar) to take place, resulting in a new substance with different properties (cake).


How can you tell that baking a cake produces a chemical change?

New chemical bonds are being formed, and some are being broken. A simple test for if something is a chemical change or not is if the reaction is irreversible, such as baking a cake. Quite a few chemical changes are reversible, however you can almost be certain that a physical change is reversible, such as water <-> ice.


What mixtures are chemical or physical change?

A chemical change occurs when new substances are formed with different properties, such as rusting of iron or baking a cake. A physical change involves a rearrangement of molecules without forming new substances, like dissolving sugar in water or melting ice.


Is eating an ice cream cake a chemical change?

Yes cake is a chemical change becaus it has a realse of gas as it bakes. That's why there is little holes.