GIVING BRAINIEST FIVE STARS AND HEART! Please define the following term in your own words!

law of conservation of matter

Matter cannot be created destroyed

Explanation

Matter can change form through physical and chemical changes, but through any of these changes, matter is conserved. The same amount of matter exists before and after the change—none is created or destroyed. This concept is called the Law of Conservation of Mass.

radioactive decay occurs in unstable atomic nuclei – that is, ones that don't have enough binding energy to hold

the nucleus together due to an excess of either protons or neutrons.