Why can't atoms be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction?
The Forever Kitchen
Why can't atoms be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction?
Picture a giant kitchen where the universe does its cooking. The recipes change all the time — fizzes, flames, rust, and rot. But there's one ingredient the kitchen never runs out of, and never throws away. Atoms.
An atom is one of the tiniest building blocks of stuff. Like a LEGO brick, it's a little piece you snap together with others to make bigger things — water, sugar, air, you. And here's the magic rule: in a chemical reaction, the bricks themselves never appear out of nowhere or vanish into nothing.
