What is the chemical formula of wood?

Answer 1

Wood is not composed of a bunch of identical molecules, so it has no chemical formula. It turns out that wood contains lignite, an organic polymer which is a name applied to a group of complex organic chemicals. Wood also contains cellulose, which is a polysaccharides with (C6H10O5)n as its formula.

Wikipedia has more information on wood, and a link is provided. We also gave you links to the posts on lignite and cellulose, too. Hey, this is WikiAnswers. We've got your back.

Aye that's correct

Answer 2

The chemical formula of wood is often simplified to (C6H10O5)n, where n can vary depending on the type of wood. Wood is primarily composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, which are long chains of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen molecules.

Answer 3

Wood is a loose term generally given to a collection of lignified cells and therefore has no chemical composition.

The question can therefore be altered to give the chemical composition for lignin (the macromolecule responsible for wood as we know it). Unfortunately this does not yield any useful answers either as lignin is a wildly varied and indefinitely large macromolecule with no set structure.

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The main constituents of wood are cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. You might wish to visit the wikipedia page for wood for more information.

Answer 4

There is none, because wood is a multi-compound material.

There are some main components like e.g. cellulose ( C6H10O5)n , n=large number, >1000. and also lignine, water, minerals, other carbohydrates than cellulose etc.

Answer 5

There is no simple chemical formula for that, since wood is not a simple chemical compound, but a combination of many different things. You can write a chemical formula for the burning of cellulose, though, since much of the wood consists of that; take out all the water molecules you can, then combine each of the remaining carbon molecules with one O2 molecule from the air, to form carbon dioxide; and combine 4 at a time of the remaining hydrogen atoms, with 1 O2 molecule from the air, to form H2O.An additional complication is that part of the carbon might burn partially, forming carbon monoxide - and of course, you don't know what percentage that would be. Better just to ignore this part.

Answer 6

Methanol, also known as wood alcohol, has a chemical formula of CH3OH, or CH4O.

Answer 7

the chemical formula for wood doesnt really exist because trees take in the carbon from our breath.... so yea theres carbon in it...

Answer 8

CH2O is the chemical makeup and formula of wood, this chemical formula is known as carbohydrate.

Answer 9

Wood is a mixture and so does not have a chemical formula.

The main component of wood is cellulose, which has the formula (C6H10O5)n The "n" is a variable.

Answer 10

6C10H15O7+heat=C50H10O + 10CH2O