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Science Unit 6D: Reversible and irreversible changes

 

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Section 3: Making new materials

Learning objectives:

  • some changes that occur when materials are mixed cannot easily be reversed
  • heating some materials can cause them to change
  • cooling some materials can cause them to change

Remember: although a material may change its appearance or state when heated or cooled, (e.g. freezing water to make ice, heating chocolate to spread on a cake) it is easy to get the original material back again IF it hasn't been cooked (heated for too long at too high a temperature).

Has a new material been made? Can it be easily reversed? What is your evidence for your conclusion?

Plaster cast

 

     
baking a cake

     
lemon juice
baking soda

     
salt

     
water
indigestion tablets

     
raw meat

     
chocolate

     
bread

     
mix ingredients

     
cement

     

   

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