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When chemical reactions occur, the energy changes are relatively modest and the mass changes are too small to measure, so the laws of conservation of matter and energy hold well.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

These rules are special cases of the laws of conservation of charge and conservation of energy.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Use the laws of conservation of momentum and energy to explain how a shape charge can direct most of the energy released in an explosion in a specific direction.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The physicists found that the laws of conservation were violated because of the possible existence of a third element that was neither proton nor electron.

From Scientific American • Jul. 19, 2013

Delicate laws of conservation preserve all grudges balanced, all the accounts settled and all agony equally distributed.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel