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When wood is burned, energy is released in the forms of heat and light. Describe the reaction, and explain why this change does not violate the law of conservation of energy. Use the terms combustion, exothermic, and chemical energy.

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Burning wood is a form of spontaneous combustion, a type of chemical reaction occurring with chemical energy. It is exothermic, meaning it releases heat when it occurs.When wood is burned, carbon breaks down (which creates the crackling sound you hear) and creates a new material. Since the carbons are not being created and only rearranged, this does not violate the law of conservation of energy.
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Burning wood would be a sort of combustion (spontaneous), which is a biochemical process that occurs involving chemical energies.

  • It's indeed exothermic, which means it generates heat because it happens. Whenever the hardwood is burnt, charcoal decomposes and then becomes responsible for the formation and creates a new particle.
  • Because the carbons aren't generated but just redistributed or shuffled, this doesn't contradict the principle or the concept of conserving energy.

Thus the above approach is appropriate.

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