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What happens in a chemical reaction?

a.
Atoms are destroyed.
c.
Molecules are created.
b.
Atoms are created.
d.
Atoms are rearranged.

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Answer:

d. Atoms are rearranged.

Step-by-step explanation:

In a chemical reaction, what happens is that atoms are simply rearranged when the process takes place.

According to the law of conservation of mass "in a chemical reaction, matter is neither created nor destroyed but atoms are simply rearranged".

Therefore:

  1. Atoms are not created
  2. Atoms are not destroyed
  3. Atoms are simply rearranged.
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