Question: what is the law of conservations of mass
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what is the law of conservations of mass
What is the law of conservation of mass? Who developed it? Describe the experiments this person carried out that led to the law's formulation Which of Dalton's four principles does it support, and how does it support it?
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states that the mass of a closed system will remain constant, regardless of the processes acting inside the system. An equivalent statement is that matter cannot be created nor destroyed, although it may be rearranged. This implies that for any chemical process in a closed system, the mass of the reactants must equal the mass of the products. The law of mass/matter conservation may be considered as an approximate physical law that holds only in the classical sense before the advent of special relativity and quantum mechanics.
The law of conservation of mass was first clearly formulated by Antoine Lavoisier; in 1789, who is often for this reason referred to as the father of modern chemistry. However, Mikhail Lomonosov (1748) had previously expressed similar ideas and proved them in experiments
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