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

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In a physical change, only the physical properties of a substance change and no new substances are formed.
Freezing of water is a physical change because only the physical state of water is changed; i.e. water is converted into ice. Hence, freezing is a physical change.

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