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Burning wood can be harmful to the atmosphere or not, depending on how it is done. A clean burn can be quite clean, but a dirty burn can be quite dirty, causing pollution from smoke.
Grass should not be burned unless you actually know that no chemical treatments have been used on the grass. Residues from some pesticides, fertilizers, weed killers, and other treatments can burn to form dioxin, which is very poisonous.
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Where does the oxygen needed for burning wood come from?
Oxygen is part of the mixture of gases we breath. Therefore, burning wood uses the oxygen in the atmosphere.
What gas enters the atmosphere after burning wood or coal?
Mainly carbon dioxide.
Does burning your grass make it greener?
Burning your grass does not actually make it greener. Burning your grass will kill or torch the blades of grass.
Why lpg is a better domestic fuel than wood?
Wood is better if you have plenty of wood available and can grow more trees while you are burning the old ones. That makes you carbon-neutral, because while burning wood produces CO2, growing wood takes CO2 out of the atmosphere in equal measure.
Why is burning wood less damaging to the environment than burning coal?
because wood is carbon neutral, it takes C02 in from the atmosphere and stores it so when it is burned the carbon dioxide is just released into the atmosphere again and can be used for photosynthesis for other plants. you can re grow trees quickly to get wood but coal takes hundreds of thousands of years to form.
Where does oxygen come from when burning wood?
From the atmosphere (air) surrounding the wood. The wood would not burn in a vacuum devoid of air. Air is composed of approximately 20% oxygen.
Is wood burning an example of combustion?
Yes, wood burning is an example of combustion.
What are two examples of solid particles found in the atmosphere?
Dust and soot. "Dust" are fine particles of rock that can be caused by weathering, wind, or meteors burning up in the atmosphere. "Soot" is partially-burned hydrocarbons that result from burning something organic, like wood, coal or oil.
Burning wood a physical or chemical?
Burning wood is a chemical reaction because combustion (burning) is an oxidation reaction.
What is the name of energy that can not be re-used?
One description is non-sustainable or non-renewable, because it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere without another parallel process that takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. For example carbon that was taken out of the atmosphere 100-200 million years ago is a huge resource of carbon that would cause damage if it were released by burning fuels such as coal and oil in a short time, say 200 years, and that is a very long-term cycle that is non-renewable and damaging. Burning wood is renewable because while the tree that produced the wood was growing it absorbed carbon dioxide, so the carbon goes round in a short cycle. Carbon gases like carbon dioxide from cows is renewable because they eat grass and that contains carbon taken out of the atmosphere when that grass grew.
Industrial burning wood manufacture plant?
enqurie about industarial burning wood manufature
Why does burning wood and burning fossil fuels produce similar pollutants?
Burning fossil fuels and burning wood produce similar pollutants because wood and fossil fuels are both consist of hydrogen and carbon. Carbon dioxide is produced when burning wood and fossil fuel.
