After elaborating on what (a) experimental facts,
(b) hypotheses, c) theories and (d) laws are in
science an author of a textbook inserted:
"A PRINCIPLE TO REMEMBER. In a chemical
change the atoms in substances are rearranged
to make one or more new substances. The result
is a change in composition."
Would it be appropriate to replace the word
PRINCIPLE by the word LAW?
Ludwik Kowalski