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Both slicing a tomato and burning toast cannot be reversed, so why is slicing a tomato only considered a physical change?
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Both slicing a tomato and burning toast cannot be reversed, so why is slicing a tomato only considered a physical change?

User Prasanth A R
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because like someone said your cutting it and if you try to put it back together you and you and that would make it physical
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Most likely because if you slice a tomato in pieces, it is not whole anymore and is in multiple pieces. It’s physical form has changed, and that can’t be reversed.
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