Chemistry GCSE
Chemical change
What Chemical change means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Chemical change
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A change in which one or more new substances form, with different properties from the reactants, because atoms are rearranged into different combinations.
Topics that use Chemical change
- Atoms, elements and compounds (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Balanced chemical equation
- Balanced equation
- Chemical symbol
- Decomposition reactions
- Endothermic
- Exothermic
- Fixed composition and atom ratios
- Formulae as symbolic representations
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