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Wood had heat of combustion of 14.84 kJ/kg, rough estimate of a match would weight about 0.12 g (assume dimension of 2mm x 2mm x 30 mm) and would contain only 1.78 kJ of energy when combusted with air. This same amount of energy is equivalent to 6 cc of boiling water (refer to room temperature of 25 C). Though not state the quantity of boiling water but it could say that a cup (250 cc) of boiling water had 44 time more energy than a match stick.

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