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What is involved in a chemical reaction?

Answer 1

A chemical reaction involves the formation of new substances, and the making and breaking of strong chemical bonds...........

A chemical reaction thus has no effect on the mass of the starting materials, #"the reactants"#, and the #"products"# will have an equivalent mass. The formation of strong bonds in a chemical reaction will typically be associated with the release of energy, which can be utilized to do mechanical work.

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Answer 2

Noah Aldrich

Rearranging atoms to create new substances with distinct chemical properties is known as a chemical reaction; this process usually entails breaking chemical bonds in the reactants and creating new ones in the products.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.