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In jewellery shop, electroplating is done to deposit gold on steel. Now the jewellery appears as gold. Is this a chemical change or a physical change? Give reason.
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This is a physical change as the activity of electroplating does not involve the formation of new products with new properties. Only a layer of metal is deposited on another metal and no chemical change is involved here.

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