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Statements of Physics
I can be converted from one form to another and transported from one place to another, yet you can not create or destroy me.
What am I?
What am I?
Hint
Everything we do can cause it to be recycled.Answer
Energy.According to the laws of thermodynamics:
Energy can not be created nor destroyed.
Energy can be converted from one form to another (kinetic energy, heat, latent heat, potential energy, chemical energy, or electrical energy).
Energy can be transported from one place to another through conduction, convection, and radiation.
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Unless you consider mass a form of energy, energy can be created from mass in a nuclear explosion. This should be in science.
excuse me but I didn't come to braingle to learn hydro electricity or energy whatever
I think, in this case, it would be considered latent energy in the form of a nuclear bomb.
I was thinking water/ice was a possibility.
... but excuse me, Avril. Isnt' learning one of the purpose of these teasers?
... but excuse me, Avril. Isnt' learning one of the purpose of these teasers?
I thought mass. It can't be created or destroyed either and can have different forms. Oh well.
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