conservation of mass
conservation of mass
conservation of mass
conserva′tion of mass′
n.
| Noun | 1. | conservation of mass - a fundamental principle of classical physics that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system |
| 单词 | conservation of mass | |||
| 释义 | conservation of massconservation of massconservation of massconserva′tion of mass′n.
conservation of massConservation of massThe notion that mass, or matter, can be neither created nor destroyed. According to conservation of mass, reactions and interactions which change the properties of substances leave unchanged their total mass; for instance, when charcoal burns, the mass of all of the products of combustion, such as ashes, soot, and gases, equals the original mass of charcoal and the oxygen with which it reacted. The special theory of relativity of Albert Einstein, which has been verified by experiment, has shown, however, that the mass of a body changes as the energy possessed by the body changes. Such changes in mass are too small to be detected except in subatomic phenomena. Furthermore, matter may be created, for instance, by the materialization of a photon (quantum of electromagnetic energy) into an electron-positron pair; or it may be destroyed, by the annihilation of this pair of elementary particles to produce a pair of photons. See Electron-positron pair production, Relativity conservation of mass[‚kän·sər′vā·shən əv ′mas]conservation of mass
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