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which would show an example of how physical changes are reversible? cutting a gold bar in two pieces and then putting the pieces next to each other burning a match and then relighting it melting tin and then cooling it into a mold combining sodium and chlorine to make the new material of table salt
Physical changes involve changes in state or form without altering the chemical composition. Melting tin (changing from solid to liquid) and then cooling it back to a solid in a mold is a physical change that is reversible. Cutting a gold - bar and putting pieces together is not truly a reversible change in the sense of the original state. Burning a match is a chemical change. Combining sodium and chlorine is a chemical reaction forming a new compound.
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melting tin and then cooling it into a mold