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Explain how burning a candle is an example of both physical and chemical changes.
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Explain how burning a candle is an example of both physical and chemical changes.

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If you burn a candle, it's mass will decrease. If that's the case you have changed a physical property of the candle.

Burning anything is always a chemical change Gasoline ( a hydrocarbon) burns in oxygen to produce water and carbon dioxide.
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