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>It Gets Converted to Energy (So wrong. Mass cannot be converted to energy except through nuclear reactions) This is not true. There is energy in chemical bond
by drcube 11y ago
>It Gets Converted to Energy (So wrong. Mass cannot be converted to energy except through nuclear reactions)
This is not true. There is energy in chemical bonds, and that energy is released when the bonds break. When you burn gasoline, the mass of the resulting molecules adds up to less than the mass of the original gasoline. A tiny, tiny fraction less, but still less. Because there was energy in those bonds, and energy has mass.
It's wrong in another way, too, because even in nuclear reactions mass isn't converted into energy. Mass is mass, but energy also has mass. No mass is lost in a nuclear (or chemical) reaction, it just goes somewhere else. There is no "conversion" going on.