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When a material made of iron rusts, its mass increases so does this observations violate the law of conservation of mass?​
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When a material made of iron rusts, its mass increases so does this observations violate the law of conservation of mass?​

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No because the law of conservation of mass claims that in the act of an experiment nothing is created nor destroyed. There was an external reactant and that led to a product being rusted.
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