law of conservation

Scientific  

1. For the laws of conservation, see under conservation law

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Example Sentences

It was my favorite episode, the one about the law of conservation of energy.

From Literature

Given that the law of conservation states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, it stood to reason that there were subatomic particles humans did not yet know about that accounted for the lost energy.

From Salon

The second thing is what you might call the Law of Conservation of Vehicle Matter.

From Los Angeles Times

The Law of Conservation of Energy, states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transferred or changed from one form to another.

From Salon

Just as you would not expect an object to start moving on its own without some force acting on it, a body beginning to spin in absence of an initiating torque would seem decidedly supernatural, in apparent violation of the law of conservation of angular momentum.

From Scientific American