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The law of conservation of mass states ____.


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that matter can be created but not destroyed.

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that matter can neither be created nor be destroyed in a chemical reaction.

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that matter cannot be created but destroyed in a chemical reaction.

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that matter can be created as well as destroyed.

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The correct option is B

that matter can neither be created nor be destroyed in a chemical reaction.


The law of conservation of mass states that matter can neither be created nor be destroyed in a chemical reaction, i.e. mass before and after the chemical reaction is same.


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