Question

5. When an electric current is passed through water during the process of electrolysis, two gases are formed. One gas has a boiling point of -183°C and the other has a boiling point of -253ºC. Was this event a physical

change or a chemical change?
It was a chemical change.
It was both a chemical and physical change
It was a physical change
It could have been either a physical or chemical change.

Answer 1

Change is happening all around us all of the time. Just as chemists have classified elements and compounds, they have also classified types of changes. Changes are classified as either physical or chemical changes. Chemists learn a lot about the nature of matter by studying the changes that matter can undergo. Chemists make a distinction between two different types of changes that they study—physical changes and chemical changes.