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Your teacher takes a candle and cuts some wax from the bottom of it. She puts a bit of wax in a beaker and places it on a hot plate. Eventually, the wax melts and becomes a liquid. Do you think this a physical or a chemical change? Explain.

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Answer:

It is a chemical change

Step-by-step explanation:

Melting of wax is temporary and wax can settle again on cooling and turns into a solid. ... Hence it is a chemical change.

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Answer:

physical

Step-by-step explanation:

the wax is changing it's physical state by becoming a liquid, it isn't changing it's chemical makeup

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