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Does anyone know common misconceptions of the Law of Conservation of Mass?

April 26, 2017Chemistry common conservation Law mass Mathematics misconceptions

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Does anyone know common misconceptions of the Law of Conservation of Mass?

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The Law of Conservation of Mass is generally summarised as “matter can neither be created or destroyed”. This is clearly not true when Special Relativity allows for matter to be converted to energy (E=mc^2).