Can You Melt Wood
Jim Swenson a scientist at NEWTON states.
Can you melt wood. Petrified wood is wood that is so old it has turned into minerals yet you can still tell where the grains in the wood used to be. Furthermore because wood is a multicomponent system it would not melt uniformly but rather would melt one component at a time beginning with the lowest-melting component. Wood is mostly cellulose lignin and water.
In theory it may be possible to melt wood by one alternative means. During this process the physical structure of wood is destroyed and it cannot return to the original composition. If you heat wood during the process the water boils first and evaporates.
Under normal pressure and under an air atmosphere you really cant melt wood. When this melting point is lowered to a certain temperature attained experimentally by manipulating pressure the wood might be able to melt note the stress on might. Any wood will just burn like wood pellets in the stove.
At standard pressure and temperature the melting point of carbon is 3500 degrees Celsius. Decompose to form other compounds such as carbon dioxide methanol water and charcoal. That is why wood cannot melt.
This day i choose to see wh. Can Wood Really Melt. Wood is cellulose which is a larger longer molecule whose approximate formula is H- HCOHn-H.
In theory its quite possible to melt wood using alternative means. As a result wood has long-chain organic molecules that once heated. However if you put wood in supercritical water as a solvent you can dissolve the cellulose into the water a similar process to melting.