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by ncmncm 2093 days ago
In biology, there is conservation of matter. Geology, too. Everywhere, really, except in atom-smashers, stellar cores, and nukes.
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doublesCs 2092 days ago
No, this isn't true. There's no conservation of matter anywhere. If you take 2 hydrogen atoms and weight them, then bond them together in a hydrogen molecule and weight that, the molecule weights less than twice one hydrogen atom.
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ncmncm 2092 days ago
But you still have the two hydrogen atoms, before and after. They are matter. Tiny (really tiny!) differences in weight don't change that.
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doublesCs 2092 days ago
I guess when you said "conservation of matter" I interpreted that as meaning "conservation of mass", seeing as we're talking about weight loss.
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