When rocks are crushed for use in industry, the volume of crushed rock is generally less than the original rock. The manager of the Everglades Rock Crushing Company starts crushing rock from two identical rock containers. He notices that the volume of the crushed rock from the first rock container is different than the crushed rock in the second rock container. What kind of investigation is the manager conducting?

a chemical reaction

explanation:

the answer is true.

answer is: c. the experiment shows that the red substance experienced a chemical change.

this is chemical change (chemical reaction), because two new substances are formed (metalig liquid and gas), the atoms are rearranged and the reaction is followed by an energy change.

this is example of chemical decomposition.

chemical decomposition (analysis) is the separation of a single chemical compound into its two or more elemental parts or to simpler compounds.  

chemical decomposition is opposite of chemical synthesis.

water and alcohols have similar properties because water molecules contain hydroxyl groups that can form hydrogen bonds with other water molecules and with alcohol molecules, and likewise alcohol molecules can form hydrogen bonds with other alcohol molecules as well as with water.