Question

Write true or false. Correct the false statement.

The law of conservation of mass states that mass is created during a chemical reaction.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is B False

• According to the Law of Conservation of mass - ‘Mass (matter) can neither be created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction’.
• So, the total mass of all the elements present in the products of a chemical reaction should be equal to the total mass of all the elements present
  in the reactants.
• In other words, the number of atoms of each element in the products must be equal to the number of atoms of these elements in the reactants.

Hence, the given statement is False.

Correct statement - The law of conservation of mass states that mass is neither created nor destroyed during a chemical reaction.