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conservation of matter

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conservation of matter,
(in physics) a law stating that matter can be neither created nor destroyed and that the amount of matter in the universe is finite. It is superseded by the special relativity equation e = mc2, but it is still applicable in the chemical process. Also called conservation of mass. See also conservation of energy.


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