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When wood burns a small amount of ashes is made why is the mass of the wood before the fire not equal to the mass of the ashes after the reaction?
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∙ 11y ago
The total mass of the wood and oxygen used is the same as the total mass of the ash and gases produced in the burning (mostly.carbon dioxide and maybe some carbon monoxide) = you might also have to account for any soot that drifted off .
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 10y agoi chemical change has happened, but the mass does not change because mass is neither created or destroyed
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∙ 9y agoSome went up the flue, some are in the ashes, some entered the room (you might have breathed some of those). They are all still somewhere.
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∙ 10y agoiguiv
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∙ 11y agoawesome
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