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Paper is mostly cellulose strands since it is made from wood or cotton most of the time. Cellulose is a long polymer of glucose, a sugar, that is composed of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. The exothermic chemical reaction, fire, releases the carbon in up to three forms: elemental carbon, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. Meanwhile, the hydrogen combines with any available alcohol group (OH) from the sugar to form water (dihydro-monoxide), a very stable compound. Of course, this perfect picture is complicated by any print or colored inks on that paper which may contain sulfur and by the nitrogen-rich medium in which the chemical reactions happen: air. Here stable nitrogen-oxygen and to a lesser extent nitrogen-hydrogen compounds of nitrogen oxide(NO2 and NO) and ammonia(NH4) respectively may form.

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