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By: France May N. Marquez
Matter is constantly changing. Trees get cut, ice melts, glass breaks,
paper is torn into bits and pieces, food is cooked and digested. When
the ice cubes in your juice melts, where do they go? What becomes of
the ice cubes? When food is chewed and digested, what happens to it?
How does matter change?
Physical Change
Matter can change its shape, size, texture, color, and phase. It can also
turn into a new substance. These changes can occur in the presence or
absence of heat. Changes in phase and appearance involve physical
change. In a physical change, only the appearance of an object is
altered, but its composition remains the same. Changes in appearance
include changes in texture, shape, and size. A physical change may or
may not involve a change in phase. No new substances are formed
when a physical change occurs.
Examples of physical changes are the following:
1. Crumpling a paper bag.
2. Chopping an apple.
3. Mixing salt and sand.
4. Melting solid sulfur into liquid sulfur.
5. Vaporization of liquid nitrogen.
6. Filling a candy bowl with different candies.
7. Mixing flour, salt, and sugar.
8. Mixing water and oil.
9. Crushing a can.
10. Melting an ice cube.
11. Mixing sand and water.
12. Breaking a glass.
13. Dissolving sugar in water.
14. Shredding paper.
15. Chopping wood.
16. Mixing red and green marbles.
17. Sublimation of dry ice.
18. Crumpling a sheet of aluminum foil.
19. Casting silver in a mold.
20. Breaking a bottle.
21. Boiling water.
22. Evaporating alcohol.
Chemical Change
Matter does not just change physically. Matter can also change its
composition and turn into something else. A chemical change is a
change in composition in which the substances that make it up change
into another substance with a new set of physical and chemical
properties. The substances that undergo a change can no longer have
the same properties because their compositions were already altered. A
chemical change always involves a chemical reaction. New materials are
formed as a result of the change. The color, odor, shape, orcomposition
of the original materials changes. Energy is either given off or taken in
during a chemical change. The new materials formed cannot be hanged
back to their original forms.
Examples of chemical changes are the following:
1. Iron rusting.
2. Metabolism of food in the body .
3. Burning wood.
4. Cooking an egg.
5. Electroplating.
6. Baking a cake.
7. Vinegar and baking soda mixture.
8. Rotting banana.
9. Fireworks
10. Chemical battery.
11. Combustion of trees.
12. Mixing an acid and a base.
13. Digesting sugar with amylase in saliva.
14. Grilling a hamburger.
15. Milk going sour.
16. Leaves in the autumn.
17. Formation of yogurt from milk.
18. Ripening of fruits.
19. Formation of wine from grapes.
20. Burning of natural gas.