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In the normal understanding of chemistry, no.

However anytime a reaction (e.g. chemical, nuclear, mechanical) absorbs energy mass is created and anytime a reaction releases energy mass is destroyed. The problem is detecting the change in mass. For even the most energetic chemical reactions the amount of change in mass is in the nanogram or smaller quantities per kilogram of reactants. Such small changes in mass are undetectable even on typical laboratory electronic chemical microbalances and have only been measured on specially custom built ultraprecise equipment costing many millions of dollars.

Even in nuclear reactions the changes in mass look small, but are (at least in principle) large enough to measure practically. For example the Nagasaki bomb which contained 6.2 kilograms of plutonium only destroyed about 1 milligram of mass. To destroy this much mass using the highly energetic chemical.reaction of TNT would require almost 2 million kilograms of TNT!

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