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Consider burning paper and making a pie. Why would these actions be classified as chemical changes?

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they are irreversible (you can't unburn paper) and affect the chemical composition of the object (when paper burns, it transforms the nearby oxygen into carbon dioxide using the carbon in the paper)

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