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Is burning a candle is a chemical or physical change or both

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It includes both physical and chemical change. Burning of candle produces smoke and a new product is formed, hence a chemical change, and the wax melts during burning but again solidifies, here a change occurs in it's physical properties so it's a physical change too.

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