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Which type of change must occur to form a compound?

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Bergeront Tiffney

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Answered Jan 28, 2021

Compounds are formed through chemical reactions. This process involves the making of interatomic bonds between one or more substances in order to form new substances. The type of change that must occur to form a compound is a chemical change. It refers to the process in which one or more substances (reactants) are changed into new products.

This usually involves the breaking or creation of chemical bonds. While you might expect a product formed to have the various properties of the reactants, it doesn't actually work that way. Any product formed through a chemical reaction will have a unique set of properties that are totally different from its elemental constituents.

For instance, water (H2O) does not support combustion, but one of its elemental constituents (Hydrogen) supports combustion. This actually explains why a physical change that occurs in a mixture is totally different from a chemical change.

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Answered Jan 21, 2021

The correct answer to this question is a chemical change. This is also known as a chemical reaction. When chemical reactions occur, there are chemical bonds that are formed. These newly formed bonds are needed for the new compound to be created. New compounds that are created have unique chemical properties.

Substances that do not have a chemical change are just a mixture. Mixtures share many different type of properties of the substances that are being mixed together. With a mixture, the components of the mixture are able to be separated. however, when a chemical change happens, those same components are not able to be separated.

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Answered Jan 21, 2021

The correct answer to this question is a chemical change. This change is also known as a chemical reaction. This type of change occurs when materials are transformed into a new materials. The new material will have different properties, and one or more new products would be formed.

An example of a chemical change is burning wood. When the wood burns, whether, in a fireplace or a bonfire, the wood turns into ash, the ash that is now formed is not able to turn back into wood, and ash is the permanent change. Another example is when a candle burns and the candle melts in the wax form.

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Answered Jan 21, 2021

The correct answer to this question is a chemical change. During this chemical reaction, the bonds are formed, which leads to a new substance altogether. If a chemical reaction does not occur, the substances that are combined may instead create a mixture. When a mixture occurs, the components that make it up will still have their original properties. They can also be separated easily.

An example of this a fruit salad, where the different components of fruit are mixed together but can easily be separated. A compound is not able to separate because the chemical change occurs, and it combines the substances.

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F. Hope

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Answered Jan 19, 2021

What you would need before you can create a chemical compound is a chemical reaction. What is a chemical reaction? This is a process by which one or more substances, also known as the reactants, will be converted into different types of products. A chemical reaction will rearrange the starting substances of the different products so that new properties will start to form.

Take note that there are four different types of chemical reactions that are available such as synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, and what people are familiar with is a double replacement. These four chemical reactions will allow chemical compounds to occur.

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B. Lucian

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Answered Jan 17, 2021

The type of change that is needed to form a compound is a chemical change. Take note that chemical change is different from physical change. With the physical change, you are just going to change the size or the shape of the item but the components of the item will remain the same. With the physical change, you are going to change some of the components of the item which means that it may be considered as a completely new item.

When chemical change happens, the different bonds of the atoms are broken and they form new compounds that would make the overall structure of the item different. A change in color or temperature is an indication of a chemical change.

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O. Bickis

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Answered Jan 14, 2021

Before a chemical compound can form, there must be a chemical reaction. The change that must occur to form a compound is a chemical change. During a chemical reaction, chemical bonds are formed in order to create a new compound. When a new compound is formed, it has a unique set of chemical properties.

Any substance that is created without a chemical change is simply a mixture. A mixture will still share the various properties of its constituents. In fact, you can separate all the components of the mixture using a particular separation technique. On the contrary, when a chemical change occurs, you cannot separate its components using any physical means.

A perfect example of a chemical change is when hydrogen molecules combine with oxygen molecules to give water. While a chemical change automatically creates a chemical bond, this bond can be ionic or covalent.

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alexislovesubaby

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Answered Sep 20, 2018

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