If they are heated they will absorb heat, like any substance does, up to the point where they are hot enough to react with oxygen and start burning, then they emit heat.
The water has a tendency to evaporate if heated; this will quickly absorb any heat, and thus reduce the fire.
because they are "chips" off the potato. like a wood chip.
Wood floats.
All material substances, including plastics of every type, can absorb heat to a greater or lesser degree (the measurement of heat absorbing ability is officially known as heat capacity). There are plastics that will melt if you heat them, but they still absorb heat, even as they melt.
CO2 absorb more heat than other gases or we can say that the other gases are not able to absorb lower radition of infrared rays of 5 to 15 microns but CO2 absorb these and CO2 later on re-radiate these as longer rays ( as heat).
heat transfor to radiations
Wood absorbs more heat then sand. This is why at night in deserts it becomes so cold you can die.
chips/shavings/what-have-you...of WOOD(GASP!).
No the water would drain around the chips. They would not absorb water.
The bulk density of wood chips varies from about 550 Ibs/cu yd for new wood chips to 750 Ibs/cu yd for recycled wood chips.
Paper, but not wood chips.
You should use a solid wood that doesn't absorb water from the rain. I would recommend pine tree wood or any wood that will resist cold, heat, rain, sun, etc.
All surfaces absorb some heat.
Lots of tiny, bright yellow spots on wood chips is likely mold. The area where the wood chips are is likely damp.
No, geothermal is from the ground, Geo = earth. Basiccally, anti freeze is circulated through pipes in the ground to absorb the heat and then through a heat exchanger to concentrate it to heat a building.
Most paper is made from wood chips, or wood pulp, if we don't recycle paper. To get wood chips we cut down trees. Trees are important because they absorb carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere and store the carbon within their trunks, roots and branches. Deforestation is one of the causes of global warming.
They absorb light which is converted into heat energy