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Law of Conservation of Energy

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State

During a chemical or physical change, energy changes from one form into another but is never created or destroyed overall.

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Gasoline's stored chemical potential energy converts into the kinetic energy of a car's moving pistons, not into additional energy overall.

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A reaction that seems to produce energy "from nothing" is converting some unmeasured input form; it never actually breaks this law.