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  • Chemical Changes: Understanding New Substances & Reactions
    The type of change that produces a new substance is called a chemical change.

    Here's why:

    * Chemical changes involve the breaking and forming of new chemical bonds. This means the atoms within the original substances are rearranged, resulting in entirely different molecules with different properties.

    * Physical changes only alter the appearance or state of matter. They do not change the chemical composition of the substance. For example, melting ice is a physical change because the water molecules remain the same, just in a different state.

    Examples of chemical changes:

    * Burning wood (wood + oxygen → ash + carbon dioxide + water)

    * Rusting iron (iron + oxygen → iron oxide)

    * Baking a cake (flour + sugar + eggs + other ingredients → cake)

    Let me know if you'd like more examples or want to explore specific chemical changes!

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