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Q: 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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Why is it that when something burns it turns into ashes?

when something burns, carbon dioxide is evolved which makes the things porous and eventually turn them into ashes


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