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Using an electric current, you can split liquid water to form two new substances, hydrogen and oxygen gases. Is this a change in state. Explain your answer.

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This process (called electrolysis) is not have a change of state. This comes from the fact that the substance (in this case water) does not keep its identity during the change, this means that we don't end up with the same substance; rather we have two new ones, hydrogen and oxygen.

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