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Burning causes a physical and chemical change to wood. The physical change comes from the cellulose in the cell walls undergoing incomplete combustion and leaving behind ash and charred residue. The chemical changes that occur happen when the organics undergo complete combustion and turn into carbon dioxide and water vapor.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 12y agothe wood's nature changes by it burning to ashes. that is an entirely different substance than regular wood, so its a chemical change. I'm trying to think of another way but i can't.
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What are several ways that burning changes the nature of wood?
Burning is an oxidation (reaction with oxygen): wood is an organic material and easily burn. The final products are water, carbon dioxide and ash.
Ways that burning changes the nature of wood?
heat change in shape change in size change is texture, I think those are right anwser
Examples of chemical changes in the nature?
Examples of chemical changes in nature include wood burning in a forest fire, photosynthesis, the formation of sulfuric acid in volcanic vents, and the fixing of nitrogen in lightning bolts and bacteria.
Is burning wood sublimation?
Burning wood does not involve sublimation. Sublimation changes a solid to a gas without altering it chemically. Wood burning does involve destructive distillation. The wood is chemically destroyed, and parts of it go off as gasses, which then combust.
The burning of wood creates what kind of energy?
Energy cannot be created. (Or destroyed) Burning changes the chemical energy of the wood to heat energy and light energy.
What are the example of chemical changes?
burning of wood evaporating salt water cocout water turning into vinegar
Is a burning wood into ashes and smoke a physical or chemical change?
Burning wood is a chemical change - although, like most chemical changes it is accompanied by a physical change. Usually we reserve the term physical changes for things like erosion, melting, or evaporation where no change in composition occurs.
What is an example of a chemical change wood burning glass breaking water freezing?
The chemical change is the burning wood because the products, carbon dioxide, water, ash, and soot, have different physical and chemical properties. The other changes are physical changes because the physical and chemical properties of the substances did not change.
Is wood burning an example of combustion?
Yes, wood burning is an example of combustion.
Burning wood a physical or chemical?
Burning wood is a chemical reaction because combustion (burning) is an oxidation reaction.
Industrial burning wood manufacture plant?
enqurie about industarial burning wood manufature
If you chop wood for a fire and then burn the wood you have made both physical and chemical changes.?
Yes, chopping is a physical change: the chemical composition of the molecules inside the wood remains the same. Burning causes the molecules in the wood to react with the air (mostly with the oxygen in the air), and the result is different compounds than before.
