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Who stated the Law of conservation of mass?


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Law of conservation of mass

  • The law of conservation of mass state that the mass cannot be created or destroyed in a closed or isolated system.
  • Both reactants and products must have the same number of atoms.

Discovered the law of conservation of mass

  • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier discovered the rule of conservation of mass in 1789.
  • Later, the theories of special relativity and quantum mechanics changed the law of conservation of mass to state that energy and mass are one conserved quantity.

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