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Introduction: Matter and Measurement
How Science Explains Laws and Theories
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Scientific laws and scientific theories describe science in two different ways. A law is a concise verbal or mathematical statement that summarizes many experimental observations. It describes or predicts aspects of the natural world that stay the same under the same conditions.
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In science, a law is a concise statement, verbal or mathematical, that summarizes an observation and states what will happen under certain conditions. It is a universally accepted statement, and must never be wrong. Otherwise, any science based upon it would be proven incorrect.
For example, in case of the phenomenon of combustion, ...
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