Chemistry: Atoms First (2nd Edition)

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1305079248
ISBN 13: 978-1-30507-924-3

Chapter Review - Exercises - Page 27f: 74

Answer

Physical change

Work Step by Step

Physical change: the substance stays the same chemically ($H_2O$ before and after). Chemical change: the substance’s chemical composition would change (new substances formed). Here, snow (which is solid $H_2O$) becomes water vapor (gaseous $H_2O$) with no change in composition. Therefore sublimation of snow is a physical change because the substance remains $H_2O$ - only its physical state changes, not its chemical identity.
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