Chemistry: Atoms First
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780073511184
Author: Julia Burdge, Jason Overby Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 1.4QP
Classily each of the following statements as a hypothesis, law, or theory, (a) Beethoven's contribution to music would have been much greater if he had married. (b) An autumn leaf gravitates toward the around because there is an attractive force between the leaf and Earth. (c) All matter is composed of very small particles.
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