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when you go camping and have a fire to roast marshmallows,what happen to the wood at the end of the night? it burns and we call this a chemical change. however the next morning there's less material in the fire pit than the night before . what happen to all the wood???

the problem that I have is that in a chemical reaction, is the mass of the product equal to the mass of the reactants ?? what do you think??


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Answer:

Mass of products equals mass of the reactants. If you build a campfire like this one, you start with a big pile of logs. As the fire burns, the pile of logs slowly shrinks. By the end of the evening, all that's left is a small pile of ashes.

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i learned this in science before

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