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No, you cannot physically "burn" matter, you could super heat it to the point that it rips itself into elementary particles, but the actual act of something burning is a chemical change. (molecules rearranging them selves.) The light you see is not matter being converted into energy but electrons dropping/leaping onto a lower energy level and releasing a photon/ unit of light.

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