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Why is the state of matter a physical property of matter?

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State of matter is not a chemical property of a substance,

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This means that when an objects changes states of matter (such as from solid to liquid), a chemical change does not occur since the substance is the same. When an ice cube melts into water, it is still water. A chemical change only occurs when one substance turns into a different substance. State of matter only has to do with the amount of energy in the particles of a substance and their distance from each other.

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