Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Law of conservation of Matter

State the Law of conservation of Matter. Apply this law to a daily situation to explain the law.

14 comments:

  1. The law of conservation of matter simply states that matter cannot be created nor destroyed. A real-life example of this would be balancing equations. The product in this chemical reaction is not a result of matter creation or destuction but a result of a new substance being formed, in which can broken down.

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  2. Sataray Battle
    The law of conservtion states that matter can not be created or destroyed. An example would be if you burn paper, the paper would just shrink. What is really happening is that the paper is changing form to ash, carbon dioxide, and water vapor. If you captured all of those bits during the burning, they would have the same mass as the paper itself.

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  3. Shatema Paige
    The Law of Conservation of Matter states that matter can not be created nor destroyed. An example, that we all observed in class, would be the dissolved antacid tablet in distilled water. The mass of the reactants (the tablet and water) was the same as the products(the dissolved tablet in the water). Mass was neither created nor destroyed.

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  4. The law of conservation of matter states that in any physocal or chemical change that matter is conserved and neither created nor destroyed. An example of how this applies daily would be if 5 pounds of ice melted then you would still have 5 pounds of water. The amount of ice did not change just because its physical state did. And in agreement with shatema, she and i discovered in class while doing the experiment that the reactants were equal to the products which showed again that no matter was created or destroyed but conserved.

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  6. The law of conservation states that matter cannot be created nor destroyed. An example of the law of conservation of mass would be the burning of paper. Although the paper is turning into ash, the little bits will still have the same mass.

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  7. Ok so this is a little more challenging but I guess you can relate the law of conservation of matter to like trying to learn a new concept out of a book. You can't destroy or create mater, it's just put into a different form. Well the book's knowledge with the concept you're trying to grasp is matter. You interpret the matter in your own way based on youre learning style. Well the matter is changed but you have the same facts, no more no less. So you don't create or destroy.

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  8. The Law of Conservation of Matter states that matter cannot be created or destroyed. One great example of this is burning leaves. When you are burning leaves you are making a chemical change, which change the type of substance it is. As it starts off as a solid, but then end in a gas. So as you can see you can not really destroy matter as it will always be right there in a different or simplier form.

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  9. Tracey Gardner
    The law of conservation matter states that matter cannot be created nor destroyed, only it's form can be changed. An example is burning a piece of paper. It looks like the paper mass is shrinking when it is actually the paper is changing from paper to ash. If you caught and measured each bit of the paper as ash the mass would be the same before you burned the paper.

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  10. Every one of you stated the Law very well and did try to apply to a situation. Most of you picked up a situation where bits of paper and burning of it is used to exaplain the law and if we can trap the gases we will be able to test the law. Design an experiment to trap the gases and ashes during burning process to test the law.

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  11. The Law of Conservation of Mass states that matter cannot be created nor can it be destroyed. For example, when you burn paper it may seem that it loses matter. What is actually happening is that it is merely just changing form. If you were able to gather all of the ash bits, you would see that the mass will be exactly the same before the chemical change.

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  12. Amanda Barnes
    The law of coservation states that in any physical change or chemical reaction, mass is conserved. Matter cannot be destroyed or created. For example when you burn paper the product might look smaller and burned. But the ashes still equal the same amount of mass that the original piece of paper did. The same is for water. you can freeze a cup of water and its still the same, its just not a liquid anymore but a solid.

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  13. The Law of Conservation of MAss states that matter can not be created or destroyed. I believe a situation would be cremating a body. When you turn the body into ashes I would say it should weigh the same as it did originally.

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  14. The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change its form. For example if you have a cup of water then you freeze it. It will still be a water it just wont be a liquid anymore, it will be a solid

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