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Why do fires have smoke?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The composition of smoke depends on the nature of the burning fuel and the conditions of combustion, for example, when paper/wood is burned, the smoke you see is those volatile hydrocarbons evaporating from the wood.

Combustion causes things within the fuel, or object being burned, to evaporate - this is smoke.

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