How can products and reactants have different amounts of energy without violating the law of conservation of energy?

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Sigmatics · Answer 1 · 2017-08-16T06:23:41+0000

Heat energy is either absorbed or released during a reaction, but it is not wasted. Therefore, the products and reactants may have different amounts of energy depending on the kind of reaction they are going through: endothermic or exothermic.

Markus Schumann · Answer 2 · 2017-08-22T11:24:29+0000

How can products and reactants have different amounts of energy without violating the law of conservation of energy?

Answer: The way that products and reactants have different amounts of energy without violating the law of conservation of energy is by having the energy change from one form into another.

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