Answer to Question #93690 in Inorganic Chemistry for Shane Ballera

Question

Wooden boards are being sawed to smaller lengths. What kind of process takes place into this? Physical or chemical?

Answer 1

When a substance is cut or reduced in size ,shape or physical state without changing its chemical composition and its colour ,the change is said to be a physical change.

In this case also,the wooden block is being reduced in its size without changing its chemical composition.

So this is also an example of physical change