1.Is dissolving sugar in water, a physical or a chemical change?

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Dissolving sugar in water is a physical change.
A change when only the physical properties of a substance change, is called a physical change.
When sugar is mixed in water, the chemical properties remain the same only the taste which is the physical property of water changes.
Sugar can be easily separated from water by distillation.

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