When water is frozen it forms ice that has different properties.Why then do we say that freezing is a physical change?

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This is beacuse ICE only has different physical properties example-density, state(solid or liquid) etc, while chemical properties remain the same, example molecules of ICE and molecules of WATER are the same ie, H2O.

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