A scientist discovers a stack of newspapers is burned completely to ash in his laboratory how does the resulting mass relate to the initial
Mall of the stack of newspapers? A. Mass of the gasses and ash should be double the mass of the original stack of newspapers b. Mass of the gases and the ash should
Equal the mass of the original
Stack in f newspapers c. Mass of the gassed and the ash should be one fourth the mass of the original stack of newspapers d. Mass of the gassed and the ash should be one half the mass of the original stack of newspaper’s
B. Mass of the gases and the ash should equal the mass of the original stack of newspapers.
This is due to the Law of Conservation of Mass, which states that mass cannot be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction. In this case, the mass of the stack of newspapers is converted into gases and ash during the burning process, but the total mass remains the same.