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Chemical you are breaking down the water and it would need to under go another chemical change to become water again.
It is always chemistry which breaks down molecules (H2O) into its elements (H2 and O2)

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It is a chemical change, because what is left afterward is a different chemical to what you started with.

The decomposition would be 2H2O = 2H2(g) + O2(g)

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no its a chemical change

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Chemical change

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