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When objects are burned you need either oxygen or nitrogen and fire, for the most part burns on dead organisms and breaks it down to the elements it was composed of, and all that is left is about 97-98% carbon (C) and 2-3% nitrogen (N) and the rest leaves as the gas carbon dioxide (CO2)

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