Conservation of mass states that mass cannot be created or destroyed in any chemical reaction. It remains constant before and after the reaction takes place.
Imagine baking a cake. No matter how many ingredients you mix together or how much it rises in the oven, the total amount of ingredients used will always remain the same.
Law of Conservation of Energy/Mass-Energy Equivalence (E=mc²): States that energy/mass cannot be created nor destroyed; it can only change forms.
Chemical Reaction/Equation: A process that rearranges atoms to form new substances, while conserving mass.
Stoichiometry: The calculation of reactants and products in a chemical reaction based on the law of conservation of mass.
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