could wood melt if there were no oxygen where it was?
December 11th, 2009 Posted by: admin
If so, Any Idea of it’s melting point?
WHY do you say wood doesn’t melt? I was under the impression that everything has a melting point.
By: Spacebar
WHY do you say wood doesn’t melt? I was under the impression that everything has a melting point.
By: Spacebar
Tags: Melting Point, Oxygen
December 11th, 2009 at 22:54
Um- wood doesn’t melt.
December 15th, 2009 at 02:37
When you heat wood, before it can *melt*, which it does not, the bonds that hold the carbon atoms of wood, break and the entire structure is changed to something that is called *ash*. There is already a large amount of water present in wood as the cellulose molecules themselves have water. Unlike complex metal structures, wood has a simple structure and hence cannot rearrange itself at higher temperatures.