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Lesson: Chapter 16 — Changes of Matter

16. Physical and chemical change 2 of 6

Question 2

"Wax melting is a chemical change." What can be said about this statement?

The right answer is the one marked above.

It is a physical change — the wax is still wax. So the statement is false. Let the melted wax cool and solid wax is back.

Needing heat is no evidence that a change is chemical — melting ice needs heat too. Nor is an unchanged colour decisive; plenty of chemical reactions leave the colour alone.

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