Can wood melt.
 

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[Closed] Can wood melt.

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Is it possible to make wood melt? Say if you removed all oxygen and exposed to a high enough heat.


 
Posted : 04/01/2014 7:01 pm
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No, but have a look at charcoal making and torrified wood.


 
Posted : 04/01/2014 7:10 pm
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You can steam it and bend it.


 
Posted : 04/01/2014 7:13 pm
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No. Wood is mainly cellulose, which is non-thermoplastic.


 
Posted : 04/01/2014 7:18 pm
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Possibly, and it depends on how you define melt...

If you were to simply define melt as getting from a solid to liquid state then ff you were to heat it above 3780 Kelvin in a vacuum, really rather fast, you'd melt the carbon making up the cellulose. How you'd do this experimentally is anyone's guess.

If you define melting (correctly) as the reversible process of going from a solid to a liquid, then no, wood doesn't melt.


 
Posted : 04/01/2014 7:47 pm
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Possibly, and it depends on how you define melt...

OK ???

If you define melting (correctly) as the reversible process of going from a solid to a liquid, then no, wood doesn't melt.

Ahhhh.......I see !!


 
Posted : 04/01/2014 8:01 pm
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If you squeezed the sap out you could melt that.


 
Posted : 04/01/2014 10:19 pm
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magaret thatcher, naked on a cold day should do it


 
Posted : 04/01/2014 10:54 pm

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