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Lesson: Chapter 16 — Changes of Matter

16. Physical and chemical change 6 of 6

Question 6

When two solutions are mixed and an insoluble solid appears, what is that called and what does it tell us?

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The formation of a precipitate. It is evidence that a chemical change has occurred — that insoluble solid is a new substance present in neither of the original solutions.

Dissolving, grinding and cooling are all physical changes; not one of them brings a new substance into being.

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