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I have no idea what made me consider this, but: Can you melt wood? In the absence of oxygen, maybe in a noble gas atmosphere or a vacuum or whatever, exposed to high radiated heat, would wood melt? I'm guessing it would separate into component chemicals, fractional distillation-style. This question is so fucking pointless is makes my head spin, but i have a craving for knowledge. |
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with a picture of a naked man |
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Oh lordy. |
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What you said seems to make sense to me. And please get out of my anus. |
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erm, wood is mostly carbon and carbon doesn't melt it sublimes, (turns from a solid into a gas) so I'm guessing after some of the other chemicals have broken up it would just sublime but only after high temperatures. |
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See I knew that wood was mostly carbon, but that i didn't know. I remember iodine sublimes as well... why the hell does that happen? |
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hehe the idea of melting wood is extremely cool. i'd have thought that if you subjected your ahem wood to enough bastard heat in an inert atmosphere, it'd just vapourise (as the Doctor says). as substances are heated, their vapour pressure increases. vapour pressure is the pressure exerted by the gas surrounding a solid or liquid (the solid or liquid is always surrounded by a bit of vapour of that substance). the substance will boil when their vapour pressure is equal to atmospheric pressure. i think it's the fact that solid iodine crystals have high vapour pressures (presumably close to atmospheric pressure) near their melting point. so they don't actually bother melting that much and go straight for the gas option. don't quote me though! |
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Hehe, i'm learning so much tonight. Huzzah for vapour pressure. |
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next time i need a cup of molten wood, i'll know who to call on.. |
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I'm in the mood for a nice glass of wood! |
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bukkake |
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When my wood melts I leave it five minutes and flick through some mucky magazines. That usually returns me to rigidity. |
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