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What is conservation of mass?

What is conservation of mass? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) A conservation law of classical physics that states that the total mass of a closed system remains constant regardless of the chemical or physical changes that take place within it.
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Collisions of this kind would appear to violate the first law of thermodynamics, the conservation of mass and energy.
Apply quantitatively the law of conservation of mass and energy, using Einstein's mass-energy equivalence.
It took early scientists hundreds of years of scientific study before the law of conservation of mass became accepted.
Or do those calculations of yours freely infringe the law of conservation of energy but have scruples about the conservation of mass?
But that law assumes the conservation of mass energy as well as a space which is Euclidean.
This demo would be appropriate at the beginning of a general chemistry course or anytime when the law of conservation of mass is discussed.

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