The Law of Conservation of Mass
Not meaning to offend but the law you mentioned in the previous post is the Law of Conservation of Mass. It is not a Thermodynamic law. It was discovered by Antoine Lavasier in the late 1700's. It does state that matter cannot be created nor destroyed in an ordinary chemical reaction. The First Law of Thermodynamics is the Law of Conservation of Energy. It states that the increase in the energy of a system is equal to the heat being added to the system minus the work being done by the system.
TJ - Chemistry teacher
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02-24-2007, 02:22 PM
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