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If a substance changes color what has most likely happened? Can anyone help?

If a substance changes color what has most likely happened? Can anyone help?-example-1
User Felix Haeberle
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When there is a color change it is because something is happening, so we can discard the "Nothing has taken place" option.

A pressure change will also not be an option since pressure can cause molecules to be closer together or further apart causing phase changes, not color changes.

Now, between a physical change and a chemical change. The correct option will be a chemical change. Taking pH as an example, when there is a change in pH using an indicator, this change can affect the chemical structure causing the color change. A physical change cannot cause that.

So the answer will be: A chemical change has taken place

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