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To: donmeaker
Until it burned.
Carbon burns. Aluminium melts. Reality is complex and hard.

Then why is carbon what's left over when I have a camp-fire?

52 posted on 07/03/2013 4:12:39 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Charcoal is mostly carbon. I suggest an experiment tomorrow, if you have time, to see if charcoal burns.

Carbon Dioxide is carbon burned.


63 posted on 07/03/2013 5:43:43 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: OneWingedShark
Then why is carbon what's left over when I have a camp-fire?

Because your fire wasn't well. Charcoal is unburnt wood. Ash from a good fire won't contain carbon. Burnt carbon is CO2 or carbon dioxide.

90 posted on 07/04/2013 12:33:41 AM PDT by MHalblaub ("Easy my friends, when it comes to the point it is only a drawing made by a non believing Dane...")
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